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I just ran across this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/TestYourself.html" .
Apparently everyone and their grandmother has already seen it. According to Joel (who I usually ignore, because I abhor the 'I once wrote this little thingy and worked on this other big project with 1,000 other people so now all my opinions on software development are scared' cult that the software world is saturated with), this is stuff most programmers aren't learning in CS programs. That seems a bit ridiculous, and from a neutral standpoint I'd like to see how many people learned how to do this during the course of their CS degree (I was able to solve all three problems very quickly, but I cheated by teaching myself Scheme and C in high school, so I don't count).
For what it's worth, most of the schools I've dealt with teach C++, not Java, which is part of why I'm asking (because you'd think with C++, it'd be hard not to come away understanding a little about pointers).
Apparently everyone and their grandmother has already seen it. According to Joel (who I usually ignore, because I abhor the 'I once wrote this little thingy and worked on this other big project with 1,000 other people so now all my opinions on software development are scared' cult that the software world is saturated with), this is stuff most programmers aren't learning in CS programs. That seems a bit ridiculous, and from a neutral standpoint I'd like to see how many people learned how to do this during the course of their CS degree (I was able to solve all three problems very quickly, but I cheated by teaching myself Scheme and C in high school, so I don't count).
For what it's worth, most of the schools I've dealt with teach C++, not Java, which is part of why I'm asking (because you'd think with C++, it'd be hard not to come away understanding a little about pointers).
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