Throwing completely substancesless insults at quality work in order to fool people who couldn't tell for themselves into thinking that you're brilliant seems to be a favorite pastime for folks who feel insecure about their lack of competence adequate enough to accomplish anything themselves.
Well the OP is a newb, but I will help him,
First of all you are right, Satoshi was not a coder, and nothing in BTC 1.0 is anything a 3rd year CS student hadn't heard of,
IMHO Satoshi was a math-guy, self taught to code,
Here look at the history "Death&taxes" wrote in 2013 here in this forum "Satoshi was a shitty cryptographer, he picked the worst shit around both sha-256 & ecdsa-secp256k1", so there goes the theory that Satoshi was a 'crypto expert' NOT
Sure you look at BTC 1.0 source its terrible, but the reason that 1.5 is clean, is cuz 1,000's of guys have clean up the C++.
Now its been rewritten in python by Buterin, and into GO by others;
The code is NOT commented, for the life of me when people say 'open source' but NO comments I call this obfuscated code, code without comments is just BS, but then nobody is willing to admit this, I'm firmly believe most likely the comments might have been stripped,
BTC was written by a TEAM at NSA, the moniker SATOSHI was just handle to coordinate the dissemination, the actual authors pulled their comments so it would appear the code was written by a solo individual, it was not, this is clear studying 1.0
I agree with the theory that the ppl at NSA weren't smart enough to finish the project, so they released it into the wild.
1.) SHA-256 is NSA
2.) ECDSA SECP256k1 is NSA, paid to certicom, fact
3.) the bitcoin-satoshi white paper is 100% stolen from a 1996 NSA document called 'how to make a mint', funny that NOBODY ever gives NSA the credit for the white-paper? funny huh?
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htmChow & Maxwell keep the Myths of BTC alive, perhaps paid well by the original, but even more likely they are part of the orginal NSA team, and thus they stand by permanently to 'guide' their child
The above is/was just a little history lesson on btc