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Re:Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009) by rnprince on Monday August 07, 2017 @12:34AM (#14945331)
By the time you've memorized all the cases where a binary tree does and doesn't make sense, you might as well have just learned how they work.
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Re:Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009) by louthy on Monday August 07, 2017 @06:49AM (#14946552)
Exactly. I'd be very wary of any professional that hadn't had the intellectual curiosity to at least understand how they work, never mind actually try to implement one.
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