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I love articles like this. I imagine this is the kind of stuff you learn if you study CS or Software Engineering in college. Maybe when I retire I will go and g
by irrational 6y ago
I love articles like this. I imagine this is the kind of stuff you learn if you study CS or Software Engineering in college. Maybe when I retire I will go and get a CS degree so I can learn all the things I should have learned before I began working professionally as a programmer 25 years ago.
- amilios 6y agoNah, I wish, you just learn how to implement quicksort in Java and stuff like that The only languages I saw during my degree were Java, C, Python, Perl, and a little bit of Prolog. And I finished my Bach last year.
- brundolf 6y agoWe used C++ throughout most of my CS program, and I hated it at the time and never wanted to write it ever again (and haven't!), but good lord did it help me understand how computers work. I've benefitted from that perspective ever since. I'm not sure you have to do a whole degree to get that perspective, though. Just learning C or C++ should get you a good chunk of it.
- v8dev123 6y ago> understand how computers work No body understands it even at electron orbitals. Your understanding will be wrong in next decade if not wrong already. Computer Arch is proprietary. Give a try for C++17. Zero Cost Abstractions RAII It's a beast.
- Thaxll 6y agoExcept that you forget pretty quicly everything you've learned in CS because when you work in the real world you don't need it.