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dingus  ·  3253 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The science myths that will not die.

    I started meeting people coming out of computer science programs who had never designed a CPU, programmed in assembly language, written a compiler or basic operating system or even programmed in C

Why do you expect students who are essentially going through a math program to be able to do that?

    implemented basic data structures themselves, and it's like everything below the level of what their programming language of choice and its runtime expose is magical to them

now that is reason for concern.