What type of programmers do need to learn data structures?

Posted by its_hertz on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @11:15AM
from the self-post dept.

Or maybe the better and easier to address question is: what programmers don’t NEED to learn about data structures?

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Re:What type of programmers do need to learn data structures? by PaulHoule on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @11:17AM (#29242303)

Programmers who use data structures supplied by somebody else don't need to learn about data structures.

Please delete the duplicate.

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Re:What type of programmers do need to learn data structures? by detaro on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @11:55AM (#29242892)

That's probably most programmers, but they too should at least have an idea about what the datastructures they use mean and what properties they have.

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