Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering...
by nugator on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @04:36PM
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I came across it when studying computer science 20 years ago, yes. Heard about it after that but never directly needed the knowledge.
I'm sure it's used under the hood in a lot of code I write and have written but so is XOR, manual memory management and a bunch of other lower level implementations that I don't need to spend time on when developing on a higher abstraction level.
Not sure why you would expect all programmers to know about binary trees specifically.
Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering...
by Retra on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @12:05AM
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Binary trees are the simplest kind of nontrivial tree, and trees are used extensively in programming. Most computer problems are solved using trees of one kind or another.
I'm sure it's used under the hood in a lot of code I write and have written but so is XOR, manual memory management and a bunch of other lower level implementations that I don't need to spend time on when developing on a higher abstraction level.
Not sure why you would expect all programmers to know about binary trees specifically.