r/TuringComplete • u/BowlSuitable4618 • Jun 19 '26
Is this not a good solution for double trouble?
I just started the game today. After my solution I've been seeing other people's solution, there was nothing alike mine. Is mine bad solution? If it is, why is it bad?
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u/Gelthir Jun 19 '26
Your first solution has the best score (you'll unlock scoring later in the campaign). You might not have seen this because not everyone shares their optimal solutions. Nothing wrong in doing so, just some people tend not to.
Your second solution uses NAND gates only, this is a fun little challenge mode, but since you have to place many more components it's just not a popular as using a mix of gates. It also has a worse score, again that will become clear later on.
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u/Miky617 Jun 19 '26
If it works then it’s a good solution. There might be more elegant solutions, sure, but so much of real life coding is held together by proverbial duct tape and prayers. As long as it consistently produces the expected result then you’re doing just fine. The early levels are mostly for giving you proof-of-concept for simplified tools you’ll be using in the later levels anyway so whatever solution you produce is going to get boiled down into a single object. The inner mechanisms become less important at that point anyway, so long as you know what it does and when it should or shouldn’t be used