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A comment on How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002) [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by natalyarostova on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:09PM (#18743676)
My math skills improved the most when I stopped obsessing over studying the right things, or finding the right textbooks, and just constantly solved problems.
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Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by crooked-v on Saturday December 22, 2018 @09:07PM (#18743936)
Being a mathematician and solving already-theoretically-understood math problems are two things that often don't have a lot of overlap.
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Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by natalyarostova on Saturday December 22, 2018 @09:28PM (#18744022)
Yeah fair.
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