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> They feed you all these algorithms in college and your brain suggests new algorithms based on those patterns. Some come from the other end of the process. I
by ElFitz 5y ago
> They feed you all these algorithms in college and your brain suggests new algorithms based on those patterns.
Some come from the other end of the process.
I want to solve that problem -> Functionally, it’d mean this and that -> How would it work? -> What algorithms / patterns are there out there that could help.
Usually people with less formal education and more hands on experience, I’d wager.
More prone to end up reinventing the wheel and spend more time searching for solutions too.
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoWhat?
- ElFitz 5y agoMost people I know who’ve been to college, or otherwise educated in the area they work in, tend to solve problems using what they know (not implying it’s a hard limit. Just an apparently well spread first instinct). Which fits the pattern matching described by the grandparent. A few people I know, most of which haven’t been to college, or done much learning at all, but are used to work outside of what they know (that’s an important part), tend to solve problems with things they didn’t know at the time they set out to solve said problems. Which doesn’t really fit the pattern matching mentioned by the grandparent. At least not in the way it was meant.