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How can you have proper real understanding of data structures and algorithms without at same time having line-by-line mental model? Or do you blindly trust wha
by Ekaros 22d ago
How can you have proper real understanding of data structures and algorithms without at same time having line-by-line mental model?
Or do you blindly trust what machine tells you at whatever time you are communicating with it?
Architecture I might give not needing line-by-line model. But I really doubt the same with data structures and algorithms. Those are in the end build from lines.
- jampekka 22d agoDjikstra seemed to manage? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra#Use_of_technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra#Use_of_tech...
- Ekaros 22d agoSeems to indicate to me that he had full mental model of everything. Whole thing in his head at once. Clearly having it in mental model sentence by sentence. AI would here be the word processor.
- layer8 21d agoHe still thought in terms of what the actual code would need to be, at that level of precision, and also wrote pseudo-code.