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		namdnay on July 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Data structures and algorithms I actually used whi... Completely agree. The only thing that's important is knowing what to google for. i.e. being able to map from a real world problem to one or several algorithm/structure classes.

WalterBright on July 15, 2020 [–]

> The only thing that's important is knowing what to google for.

It's even more important to recognize when the solution found with google is subtly wrong.

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