On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Patrick Kobly <patr...@kobly.com> wrote:
I suspect Toxico is speaking about a particular challenge that has come up > with educators teaching particularly OO languages as first languages. > Specifically, because of the strong encapsulation and data hiding techniques > present in these languages, a wide ecosystem of reusable class libraries has > surrounded them - to the point where programming in these languages is often > seen as an integration effort - trying to integrate a series of class > libraries. As a result, a certain segment of the programming community has > lost understanding of huge swaths of the practice - particularly > foundational algorithms - such as searching and sorting algs - because > learning programmers just use rather than implement. > > When you are reusing code (like a sorting or search algorithm, or a hash > tree class in Java), think about whether you understand (at least in basic > terms) how that code is likely implemented. If you were given the task of > implementing a hash table (because java.util.HashMap was unavailable to > you), would you be able to? Would you know where to start? Would you be > able to describe the performance characteristics of a search, insert or > delete using this structure? These are important questions that you should > learn to answer... > > PK > You are true, I guess. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia
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