Re:CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer
by lainga on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @07:05PM
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I have heard this was the same reason behind the vast dominance of Russian programmers in the early days of HFT (cf. Michael Lewis' Flash Boys): CS classrooms in late-80's USSR had maybe one computer between them, so you spent a lot of time getting your programs right on paper before it was your turn to use the machine.
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Re:CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer
by mikestew on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:44PM
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so you spent a lot of time getting your programs right on paper before it was your turn to use the machine.
That was called "welcome to CompSci 101!" in the first CS course I took in the early 80s. Submit your card deck, wait your turn for the operator to load the deck, an hour later you get to find out that you made a typo and it didn't compile.