Re:Diving into Other People's Code
by civilian on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:10PM
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> (The most important skill is building a mental model of the workings of reality.)
Sorry, that's just too funny. It has a "in order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe" kind of attitude. It kind of makes sense, computer science is just applied physics and logic.
Re:Diving into Other People's Code
by mooreds on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:38PM
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Ha! I wasn't aiming for that. I was thinking more along the lines of "understanding the real world requirements, and having a mental model complete enough to see where the success and error cases would lead you".
Sorry, that's just too funny. It has a "in order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe" kind of attitude. It kind of makes sense, computer science is just applied physics and logic.