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Huh? A good "programmer" is a good problem solver. You can't be a good problem solver if you don't have a conceptual understanding of algorithms or have any not
by gradstudent 15y ago
Huh? A good "programmer" is a good problem solver. You can't be a good problem solver if you don't have a conceptual understanding of algorithms or have any notion of what it means for a problem to be "hard".
- Volpe 15y agoWhy do you need algorithms to be a good problem solver? Must of sucked to solve problems before the 60s given there were no good problem solvers :( In fact, how did mathematics and physics even develop at all before then, without knowing what was hard, or how to solve problems. Seriously, a lot of software doesn't require complex algorithms, sure there is a subset that does and that's cool. But saying someone isn't a programmer because they don't have a deep understanding of computation and algorithms is disregarding a large population of quality programmers.