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At the end of my first year of my software engineering degree I wrote a Boggle solving program in C# using a trie. About a year later I discovered that tries ar
by davidjohnstone 14y ago
At the end of my first year of my software engineering degree I wrote a Boggle solving program in C# using a trie. About a year later I discovered that tries are a recognised data structure and that I wasn't the first person to use one.
- heretohelp 14y agoTries are notorious for this by the way. I know a programmer who's been working in the industry since the 70s, she did the same damn thing when she was young with the same exact data structure.