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Re:The Surprising Number of Programmers Who Can’t Program by HNcantBtrustd on Friday August 23, 2019 @10:54AM (#20778246)
11 year, self taught programmer here. Chem engineer by degree.

I had to program for eng 101, engineering 280 mechatronics, and our senior design.

I'm not a programmer by degree, but I was often the only one in group projects that understood what needed to get done.

I don't know what I missed out on. I've wrote AI since college and created embedded systems.

Programming feels unlimited.

But what don't I know? Security? Faster algorithms? I don't know what I don't know.

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Re:The Surprising Number of Programmers Who Can’t Program by psadri on Friday August 23, 2019 @10:59AM (#20778308)
Take an introductory data structure and algorithms class. Now that you have some real world work experience, they will be very relevant.
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