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Re:The Making of Lemmings by amelius on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @08:24AM (#9685430)
Yes, but software engineering was a completely different field back in those days. A lot of it was purely academic, and not of very much practical value for a solo programmer.
Re:The Making of Lemmings by ptaipale on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @08:31AM (#9685464)
Perhaps different but already highly useful. A lot of things would have been good to know before I blundered myself. At least my experience of the said fields (data structures, algorithms, best practices) were that the teaching was sensible and I learned things at the uni but I was not clever enough to come up with all those ideas and principles all by myself, however keen a programmer.

(FWIW, I started programming on a ZX Spectrum).