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Re:What would a recession mean for developers? by bluefirebrand on Saturday May 28, 2022 @10:28AM (#31540596)
I haven't worked with a linked list since first or second year university, more than 10 years ago, nor have I had much of a reason to do character by character string analysis.

I could probably work these problems out, but I might not seem too confident about it.

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Re:What would a recession mean for developers? by EduardoBautista on Saturday May 28, 2022 @01:54PM (#31542322)
It’s a basic data structure. I have been able to pass these questions without a formal University education just on logic alone. It’s just basic usage of objects in the case of a JavaScript implementation.
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Re:What would a recession mean for developers? by happymellon on Sunday May 29, 2022 @01:06AM (#31546569)
20 years of software development, I don't remember the last time that I actually encountered a linked list in the wild.

> It’s just basic usage of objects in the case of a JavaScript implementation.

Just because you would make a linked list via objects doesn't mean that anyone would actually do it.

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Re:What would a recession mean for developers? by iLoveOncall on Monday May 30, 2022 @01:49PM (#31561590)
> I don't remember the last time that I actually encountered a linked list in the wild

Probably many times a day actually, whenever you use an ArrayList or the equivalent in the language of your choice.

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Re:What would a recession mean for developers? by coldtea on Sunday May 29, 2022 @10:52AM (#31549582)
>I have been able to pass these questions without a formal University education just on logic alone.

So you'd be great for a job whose task is doing coding interviews then!

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Re:What would a recession mean for developers? by iLoveOncall on Monday May 30, 2022 @01:51PM (#31561607)
I'm fine with providing a basic Node class for the linked-list if they struggle to start, but that's it. With that anybody should be able to figure it out, no matter how long ago were their classes on that (or if they had any).
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