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21st September 2008

Link reblogged from Marco.org with 13 notes

Should a computer science degree require learning C? →

marco:

You can get along just fine without knowing C and its concepts. But your skills and knowledge reach an entirely new level when you fully understand what the computer is really doing.

Marco captures why I’m taking CS 61 this semester.

  1. webbo reblogged this from marco
  2. brendn reblogged this from marco and added:
    discussion started by Bijan...picked up by Marco: The first programming language I learned...
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  4. 2arrs2ells reblogged this from marco and added:
    Marco captures why I’m taking
  5. benkraal reblogged this from inky and added:
    I agree with Marco. Back in the day, when I was doing my undergrad CS degree, we were started on Smalltalk (Java was...
  6. gbattle reblogged this from marco and added:
    As a guy who took C in college from Brian Kernighan (yes, that Kernighan), algorithms from Robert Sedgwick (author of...
  7. caseyliss reblogged this from marco and added:
    I completely concur with Marco. Granted, I’m biased, as I was taught C++...spent my first...
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  10. marco reblogged this from bijan and added:
    Todd’s response:...Very good point. But people think learning
  11. morningstar reblogged this from webmarc and added:
    Often people ask me, “what...best computer programming language
  12. webmarc reblogged this from bijan and added:
    In his post questioning what should be taught...CS majors, Bijan asks “Should a computer...
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