I really dislike them too but I'd be shooting myself in the foot if I didn't study these problems. Learning them has also made me a better programmer since I gr

I really dislike them too but I'd be shooting myself in the foot if I didn't study these problems. Learning them has also made me a better programmer since I graduated with an ECE degree and never had a formal data structures class. But it's not like I'm going to be implementing a prefix trie at my job anytime soon.