Tech layoffs keep stacking up

Re:Tech layoffs keep stacking up by Wowfunhappy on Friday July 01, 2022 @07:10PM (#31954232)

Fwiw, AP Computer Science must have gotten better.

I took AP Computer Science in High School in 2012. The whole curriculum was based on this “Grid World” Java program where a Grasshopper extends JumpingBug extends Bug or something like that, no not as an analogy for OO, the classes were literally named like this. And, the AP test asked specific questions about Grid World's implementation, so you had to learn about it even if you understood the underlying computer science concepts.

I wish we learned about linked lists. I didn’t get that until college.

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Re:Tech layoffs keep stacking up by letitbeirie on Friday July 01, 2022 @08:46PM (#31954877)

You took it after they switched to Java, which abstracts away the mechanics of collections.

Linked lists were much more fundamental (and covered much earlier) when they were using C++.

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Re:Tech layoffs keep stacking up by Wowfunhappy on Friday July 01, 2022 @09:31PM (#31955171)

Oof—I had no idea that was a thing. Especially at that age, I would have loved to learn C++, due to some misguided notions of what constitutes "real programming".

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