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Re:MIT dean to start new university: “No majors, no lectures... by GFischer on Friday January 29, 2016 @06:51AM (#10994693)
Karnaugh maps are taught to programmers (on college/university courses) too :) at least in my country, I'd be very surprised if they aren't in the U.S.

I'd actually mostly forgotten about them :) .

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Re:MIT dean to start new university: “No majors, no lectures... by bsder on Friday January 29, 2016 @05:04PM (#10998874)
I only pull K maps out once or twice a year when some programmer absolutely insists that a conditional is correct when I can see that it isn't.

When I teach the class to programmers, state machines are the far more important concept I try to drive home. I use state machines all the time when programming.

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Re:MIT dean to start new university: “No majors, no lectures... by JoeAltmaier on Friday January 29, 2016 @05:08PM (#10998911)
...and state machines are hard to represent in most languages! That is a real pity. Its part of the one-dimensional nature of text-based programming. While state machines are two or three-dimensional ideas.
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