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I guess there are 'donts' because people need help with the keep it simple part, they are quite comfortable with the stupid part.

• ianai 10y ago
  "nobody's grading your code by how many abstractions and topics from a textbook it employs."
  • AstralStorm 10y ago
    That said, people sometimes ate grading your code based on performance. Good algorithms often win over simplistic ones.
    • makapuf 10y ago
      I'd say when you have big n, smart algorithms O(n) are better. But most of the time you have small n. better to optimize just the real big N in your program, for what you profiled, than using complex and "optimized" algos when N<1000. (I cannot retrieve the article this was taken from)
      • adrianN 10y ago
        "It's okay for my n!" http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/ http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/