top | item 13699898

(no title)

hashseed | 9 years ago

But imagine Einstein having to look up how to derive x^2. I'd say that's a pretty close equivalent to knowing tree traversal in CS. It should just come naturally.

discuss

order

coldpie|9 years ago

I've been working in the programming industry for ten years and have never had to implement tree traversal. I could probably scrape together a naive implementation in a relatively short amount of time, but it's certainly not something I've memorized. But then, I'm a programmer, not a computer scientist.

enraged_camel|9 years ago

If one is a computer scientist, yes. If one is a programmer, not at all.