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It's stuff that every CS student encounters but probably relatively few people who are self taught or do coding bootcamps will ever encounter. Also probably a
by bluefirebrand 4y ago
It's stuff that every CS student encounters but probably relatively few people who are self taught or do coding bootcamps will ever encounter.
Also probably a part of a course many people snooze through.
- ironmagma 4y agoPeople who've only done coding bootcamps probably shouldn't sign on to Hacker News and start preaching about how Big O is wrong.
- bluefirebrand 4y agoSure, but they still get jobs building software is what I mean.
- cgriswald 4y agoI see it mentioned somewhat frequently by learners on 'learn-to-code' platforms when discussing code. Even when thinking about it wrongly, it can useful.
- mcguire 4y agoI don't know when the original article was published, but Jon Bentley's book Programming Pearls (IIRC) contains essentially this same essay (actually, reversing an array) and was published in 1986.