big-O? On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Eric Wald <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 12, Robert Merrill wrote: >> >> For example: high-level schools (locally, think UofU, BYU) teach a lot >> of theory and hard math. It's good stuff, but in some corporations >> these students come out more interested in the academics of solving >> the problem than getting code to commit on deadline and shipping the >> next release. > > Curiously, I think my programming career has been enhanced at least as > much by my Physics degree as by the handful of programming courses I > took. In the physics classes, programming was just a way to get a > result faster than cranking through everything by hand, so it encouraged > straightforward and correct code. Even more to the point, the very word > makes certain managers automatically assume I'm smart, which has opened > some great doors. > > Granted, as much as I disliked CS-235 while taking it, the awareness of > big-O has helped me tremendously in finding bottlenecks and choosing > decent algorithms. > > - Eric > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ >
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