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Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)

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From: Charles Richmond
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 04:10
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On 2/22/2018 7:02 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2018-02-22, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
> 
>> Debugging can be similar to this.  You can work for hours to track down
>> a bug... only to find out that you did something very stupid to cause
>> the problem!!!  Most bugs I tracked down... ended up being bone-headed
>> mistakes instead of important conceptual errors in implementing an
>> algorithm.
> 
> And, of course, after slaving over it for hours, a cow orker walking by
> will spot it instantly.
> 

Sometimes that's true...  That's why code reviews can be so useful:  you 
have to explain your code to cow-orkers and you get to look harder at 
the code when you explain.

-- 
numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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From: Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com>
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Subject: Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)
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