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yakshaving_jgt on Dec 26, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Challenging projects every programmer should try (...

> Understanding the difference between O(1), O(n) etc is essential for literally everyone who writes code.

No it isn’t.

It’s a great thing to learn and understand, and essential for designing and maintaining data-intensive systems, but your statement simply isn’t true.

sfn42 on Dec 26, 2023 [–]

Sure, you don't strictly need it to write working code. But you will very quickly run into situations where you're writing unnecessarily slow code because you don't know what you're doing.

To me, it's essential.

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