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A comment on Ask HN: What are CS topics covered in school, that aren't learned in the wild?.

Re:Ask HN: What are CS topics covered in school, that aren't... by wmf on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:15PM (#19402544)
Automata and regular languages, invariants and proofs, functional programming, recursion come to mind immediately.

(Note that I'm not interested in bikeshedding about how a small fraction of highly motivated programmers have learned these things outside of formal education.)

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Re:Ask HN: What are CS topics covered in school, that aren't... by SamReidHughes on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:57AM (#19406858)
Recursion should be off that list, or at least it takes "necessarily" to a farther percentage than anything else here. Tons of engineers teach themselves that independently. In high school.
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