I 10x'd a TI-84 emulator's speed by replacing a switch-case
> I was used to dealing with obfuscated code from Minecraft<p>I wonder how common this is for engineers. I’ve been in industry for the last 4-5 years or so, and it was how I got a pretty big jump into programming. Talked to a few similarly aged engineers at FAANG and a couple others got into programming through Minecraft as well.