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orlp | 11 days ago

In university? No, absolutely not straight away.

The point of a CS degree is to know the fundamentals of computing, not the latest best practices in programming that abstract the fundamentals.

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jurf|11 days ago

My university also taught best practices alongside that, everytime. I am very grateful for that.

baq|10 days ago

Absolutely the wrong take. You can teach CS with just pencil and paper, but that doesn’t advance the technology, it might only benefit academia in a narrow sense. CS students should be actively engineering software in addition to doing science.