About programing, a general question

[Parshwa Murdia]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Patrick Kobly <patrick at kobly.com> wrote:

 I suspect Toxico is speaking about a particular challenge that has come up
> with educators teaching particularly OO languages as first languages.
> Specifically, because of the strong encapsulation and data hiding techniques
> present in these languages, a wide ecosystem of reusable class libraries has
> surrounded them - to the point where programming in these languages is often
> seen as an integration effort - trying to integrate a series of class
> libraries.  As a result, a certain segment of the programming community has
> lost understanding of huge swaths of the practice - particularly
> foundational algorithms - such as searching and sorting algs - because
> learning programmers just use rather than implement.
>
> When you are reusing code (like a sorting or search algorithm, or a hash
> tree class in Java), think about whether you understand (at least in basic
> terms) how that code is likely implemented.  If you were given the task of
> implementing a hash table (because java.util.HashMap was unavailable to
> you), would you be able to?  Would you know where to start?  Would you be
> able to describe the performance characteristics of a search, insert or
> delete using this structure?  These are important questions that you should
> learn to answer...
>
> PK
>


You are true, I guess.


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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia
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