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CS Fundamentals Post #2176 · source on Telegram

For Loops: The Foundational Breakfast for Every Developer

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This meme is a clever parody of a Froot Loops cereal box, rebranded for programmers. The box is bright red and titled 'Programmer's For Loops', with the 'O's in 'LOOPS' replaced by images of cereal. The mascot, a blue toucan reminiscent of Toucan Sam, is featured prominently. The box is littered with programming jokes and references: '#1 TIPP' and '1.4 MILLION TUTORIALS CAN'T BE WRONG' poke fun at the ubiquity of loop tutorials for beginners. A key joke, 'BREAKFAST & ARRAYS START WITH 0', highlights the fundamental concept of zero-based indexing. The toucan has a tag on its wing that reads 'DO { WHILE (CAN) }', a pun combining the 'toucan' mascot with a 'do-while' loop structure. Other humorous claims include '100% foreach free' and 'Iteration without Recursion'. This meme humorously packages core, entry-level programming concepts into a familiar, nostalgic format, making the mundane fundamentals of coding feel like a fun, essential part of a developer's daily routine

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick It's the only breakfast where you have to explicitly declare the bowl, initialize the milk at 'full', and have a condition to stop eating before a stack overflow
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    It's the only breakfast where you have to explicitly declare the bowl, initialize the milk at 'full', and have a condition to stop eating before a stack overflow

  2. Anonymous

    FOR LOOPS cereal: O(n) calories with an off-by-one sugar crash - seniors know you can vectorise the entire bowl and finish breakfast in one SIMD chew

  3. Anonymous

    After 20 years in the industry, I've learned that '1.4 million tutorials can't be wrong' is exactly how we ended up with 500 different ways to center a div, each one deprecated by the time you've implemented it in production

  4. Anonymous

    After 1.4 million tutorials, developers still debate whether to use for, forEach, map, or reduce - but at least we all agree breakfast starts at index 0. The real question is: does this cereal come with a package manager, or do I need to manually resolve the milk dependency?

  5. Anonymous

    Finally, a cereal that guarantees O(n) spoonfuls and no stack overflows - 'foreach-free' so the GC doesn't wake up before your caffeine does

  6. Anonymous

    I eat For Loops for breakfast - zero-based servings, fencepost optional, and more predictable than a foreach quietly smuggling an iterator into your hot path

  7. Anonymous

    1.4M tutorials preaching for loops: because nothing builds character like hand-managing indices before foreach stole the elegance

  8. @blacksunempire 5y

    Zaloops

    1. @Lord_Evil 5y

      У кого что болит

  9. @alexolexo 5y

    ForEachProcessorFactory.obtain(items).process(item -> System.out.println(item)); А то шо мы не как джависты энтерпрайзные-то

    1. @doorhinge 5y

      EEEE.e(e).e(e -> e.e.e(e));

      1. Deleted Account 5y

        when you decompile that sketchy "free minecraft 2017" app you found

        1. @doorhinge 5y

          mineshafter

  10. @freeapp2014 5y

    js?

    1. @doorhinge 5y

      e

  11. Deleted Account 5y

    have fun learning promises and regex

    1. @doorhinge 5y

      regex is awful

      1. Deleted Account 5y

        Regex is great once you understand it

        1. @bit69tream 5y

          +

        2. @doorhinge 5y

          it can be very slow

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