Challenging projects every programmer should try

Re:Challenging projects every programmer should try by yakshaving_jgt on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @07:40AM (#38771281)

> Understanding the difference between O(1), O(n) etc is essential for literally everyone who writes code.

No it isn’t.

It’s a great thing to learn and understand, and essential for designing and maintaining data-intensive systems, but your statement simply isn’t true.

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Re:Challenging projects every programmer should try by sfn42 on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @09:41AM (#38772144)

Sure, you don't strictly need it to write working code. But you will very quickly run into situations where you're writing unnecessarily slow code because you don't know what you're doing.

To me, it's essential.

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