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Re:Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source S... by llbeansandrice on Monday June 28, 2021 @10:04AM (#27662120)
> mean when they talk about "data structures and algorithms" in context of academia

Have you taken a senior/graduate level DS&A class before? Part of it is about proving the correctness of the algorithms and making guarantees about the DSs. It's not about competitive programing or acing leetcode interviews at all.

In the class I took we didn't write hardly any actual code.

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Re:Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source S... by tester34 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @06:01AM (#27673854)
>Have you taken a senior/graduate level DS&A class before?

I've taken DS&A class during CS Eng. degree, it was bullshit about sorting algorithms while using 1-indexed arrays in languages that used 0-indexed approach, nothing fancy.

I wish it were about TLA+ and formal proving

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