• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    It’s more your ability to learn. I will probably never need to make my own linked list but learning how to taught me what pointers are.

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      17 hours ago

      School put me off going to uni. I don’t need to spend even more hours learning about the fucking benefits and drawbacks of token ring networks.

      Government tripling the cost of uni compared to the year before me was also a lot of it. Didn’t learn to drive because insurance alone was £2k which I didn’t have. Now you want me to spend £9k a year? Haha, nope.

      They tried to make it sound better by saying its like the cost of going to Starbucks every day. That put me off Starbucks too.

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      17 hours ago

      No, but knowing how one works help you get a fuller understanding of data structures. And data structures is definitively something one will use and sometimes create (well, if you’re a back-end dev, anyway)

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      23 hours ago

      Lol as a drop out I thought linked list and binary sort were the apex of programming and useful in all context.

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      24 hours ago

      ehh, even people that retain literally nothing can get through college to get a paper