Re:Ask HN: Does anyone actually hire from 'developer bootcam...
by fleitz on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @03:04PM
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I've never understood the whole thing about CS foundations...
For the most part you're never discovering new datastructures, the rest of it is just knowing which data structure to pick, 50/50 dictionary/arrays, once in a while a set, and use a tree every year or two.
Even then if it's an esoteric data structure you'll still use an off the shelf implementation.
Even in data science it's mostly off the shelf R packages.
For the most part you're never discovering new datastructures, the rest of it is just knowing which data structure to pick, 50/50 dictionary/arrays, once in a while a set, and use a tree every year or two.
Even then if it's an esoteric data structure you'll still use an off the shelf implementation.
Even in data science it's mostly off the shelf R packages.