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Re:The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data ... by sukuriant on Monday October 08, 2012 @07:57PM (#4629261)
My school didn't teach B-trees, though they did teach 2-4 trees. I've never really been in a situation where I've needed to use a B-tree; and, I was an accomplished competition programmer in college.

That said, I looked up on the internet what they were and it was pretty easy to follow.

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Re:The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data ... by shrughes on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @01:03AM (#4630050)
It would be very cool if there was a programming contest problem that required efficient disk access.
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Re:The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data ... by sukuriant on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @03:55AM (#4630477)
There are some problems that require efficient reading, which is from the disk; and some that require efficient writing --- though that's more of just "buffer your outputs and don't use complex print methods, like System.out.printf"
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