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That's a fair point, and for many students true, but also not what I was claiming which is simply that these techniques are usually taught. If students fail to learn or have no interest or cram and forget, that's another problem. That said, it's not like I was taught the specifics of generating mazes, even though there was additional content on it in the textbook etc. - I'm talking more about the general algorithms.
Maze generation is sometimes used in CS classes as an example of data structures like union-find or algorithms like minimum spanning tree construction; http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~hzhang/c31/notes/ch07.pdf is one example. It wouldn't be terribly surprising for someone to get through an undergraduate CS curriculum without encountering maze generation, which is kind of a shame, and though hopefully they do encount…
Re: Visualizing Algorithms (2014)
#31I don't think we really disagree all that much.