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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by saagarjha on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @11:25AM (#20507455)
Any self-respecting computer science degree education should cover at least one language that has iterators or enhanced enumeration.
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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by cabaalis on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @12:09PM (#20507833)
My CS degree (2002-2006) did not explicitly cover "for x in y" iterators. But it did cover an understanding of algorithms and data structures well enough that I could implement one.

Which is better? YMMV.

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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by 0xDEFC0DE on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @12:50PM (#20508151)
That was probably before they were really in style e.g. C# didn't add foreach / iterators until ~2005 with v2.0 and your curriculum probably lags a bit behind the industry state-of-the-art unless it was Ivy league
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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by jki275 on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @03:32PM (#20509526)
It has not been very long since CS degrees were taught entirely in C89 or C++98, and there are a lot of us who won't touch Python or Java unless forced to.
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