Something happened in which I cannot explain

[u/3pletsahur]

I was working on a mooc fi exercise as per usual and it was taking time because i’m a dumbass.
For reference its the last ex of java programming I in part 2

Now after alot of useless lines of code and trying to make it make sense it eventually worked.???

Now I’m happy and i feel like a senior software engineer but I actually have no idea (not literally but in specific place) how it worked.

My question is.. does this count as something that’s solved with critical thinking or am I just a fool with some luck?

TripleT out.

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[u/aqua_regis]

If you just clobbered around trying things without prior thinking them through, without analyzing them, it is fool's luck.

The "Engineering" part means planning, thinking, preparing; it is the opposite of "muck around and hope that it finally works through some obscure magic or through sheer luck".

[u/LakeSun]

Rewrite it, refactor it, until you understand it.

Also, line by line debugging.

[u/Astroohhh]

dunning kruger effect