On 11/04/2012 22:03, Dan Sommers wrote:
These days, every job interview includes (or should include!)
questions regarding which structures and which algorithms are
better (or worse) for which circumstances, not to mention
questions about algorithm complexity and big-O-notation. I find
that people who *understand* the built-ins can *use* them much
more effectively than people who don't.
And that's the difference between "serious programmers" and "most
programmers."
Dan
Reminds me of a design review at which the database manager stated that
a binary chopping algorithm would be used. Someone queried this,
stating that a hashing algorithm would be better suited to the task.
The reply was "What's a hashing algorithm?". Last I heard the person
who made this quote was a director of the last major defence contractor
in the UK.
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Cheers.
Mark Lawrence.
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