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kasey_junk on Dec 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Can a simple algebra test predict programming apti...

Right, so the bog standard schools you had the opportunity to attend offered something mine (and many others) do not. As someone who is always looking for good developers I certainly don't want to limit the number of people who can learn CS to only those who happened to live somewhere that offered programming at the public school level.

walshemj on Dec 14, 2014 [–]

possibly not fetishizing CS over a more useful general introduction to programming might help.

I haven't had to do any of the big O stuff in anger but I have had to make sure a major telcos billing system reconciled.

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