Re:Notch, WebGL, Dart, and ramping up quickly
by 10098 on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @06:27PM
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> to the point of being able to design his own toy CPU architecture
Not sure what the CS curriculum is in other countries but back where I'm from they had basically taught us enough by the middle of the second year for one to be able to design something like DCPU16 using only that knowledge.
In other words, it isn't that hard, especially when you're surrounded by examples. I would expect a second-year undergrad to be able to accomplish that.
Re:Notch, WebGL, Dart, and ramping up quickly
by coldtea on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @07:06PM
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>Not sure what the CS curriculum is in other countries but back where I'm from they had basically taught us enough by the middle of the second year for one to be able to design something like DCPU16 using only that knowledge.
Same with us. That doesn't mean that 90% of the graduates out there, that even have taken such as class, will be able to do it.
Heck, a surprising majority of them (like 30% or more), even fails writing FizzBuzz ( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer... ).
Re:Notch, WebGL, Dart, and ramping up quickly
by dwild on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @07:59PM
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A majority of 30% of more?...
So, he's a pragmatic programmer that gets shit done -- to the point of being able to design his own toy CPU architecture (which already puts him above 90% of the programmers out there, including people that HAD hardware architecture classes at university).
Sorry if he doesn't live up to your standards...