We had a guy at our company with a Masters in cs and he didn't know the shortcuts for copy and paste! His first code review was unbelievably painful. Suffice to say he didn't last too long.
Was he using v's, y's, d's, and p's?
Should a senior in Comp Sci know what a .tar file is?
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Re: Should a senior in Comp Sci know what a .tar file is?
#52I had something similar to this happen to me in my 2nd semester programming class at Berkeley. I was in the lab for a class that was taught in Java for data structures (and C when the memory management talk started). We were 5 weeks into a 10 week class. The guy programming to my left turned to me and asked me what "double equals" (as in ==) meant. I was stunned, but then answered. Later it struck me: how the hell di…
Switch statements?
Re: Should a senior in Comp Sci know what a .tar file is?
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't speak for Berkeley, but my favorite classes in CS were always the ones on Algorithms and novel languages. Avoid classes that teach syntax, unless the syntax is used to highlight a language feature you have never encountered before, like continuations or currying.
English is my favorite novel language, but I didn't have much time for reading fiction in school. ;)
hehe... I meant the adjective, not the noun.