• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      It’s super easy to learn how algorithms and what not work without knowing the syntax of a language. I can tell you how a binary search tree works, but I have no clue how to code it in Java because I’ve never used Java.

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        And similarly, i could read code in a language I dont know, understand what it does and how it works even if I don’t know the syntax well enough to write it myself

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          Yeah, exactly. At least any fairly modern language. I don’t think I could just pick up assembly and read it without the class I took. Heck, I don’t think I could read it anymore now that it’s been several years since that class.

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        I mean same, but you can look to the official docs for like what a loop or queue looks like

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      You’d think that, but I believe you are underestimating people’s ability to mindlessly memorize stuff without learning it.

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        It’s what we’re trained to do throughout our education system.

        I have a hard time getting mad about it considering it’s what we told them to do from a very young age.

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      I’m a full stack polyglot and tbh I couldn’t program in some languages without reference docs / LLM even though I ship production code in those language all the time. Memorizing all of the function and method names and all of the syntax/design pattern stuff is pretty hard especially when it’s not really needed in contemporary dev.