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Comment Re:This again? (Score 1) 159

Yeah, this really does not give any context to why many students got the problem incorrect. The article calls them out as "students who struggled with the grid coding problem", but did most students truly struggle with it? Or did they run out of time before they could finish? Or did they just make some simple, uinderstandable mistake (such as not adding the value at the starting location to the sum)?

Comment Re:Exponential growth of developers (Score 1) 481

Indeed. I heard a stat recently that said the number of programmers is doubling every 5 years. Given that most new programmers are likely young professionals coming straight out of college, this means that at any point in time, half of all programmers have less than 5 years experience and the median age is somewhere in the mid-to-late 20s.

Comment And so on (Score 1) 366

A family of four with an income of $105,350 per year is considered "low income." A $65,800 annual income is considered "very low" for a family the same size, and $39,500 is "extremely low."

Making only $27,400 is considered "incredibly low". Whereas an income of $16,900 is "impossibly low". And for those making $8,500, their income is "super-duper low". $0 is right out.

Comment Literary analogy (Score 1) 173

So is this series going to be just like Stephen King's Dark Tower Series?

Knuth takes forever to get the first 4 volumes out, making you wonder if he'll ever finish the whole thing. Then he will get the final three volumes out in rapid succession, but they will largely be regarded as huge disappointments by the rest of the programming community. For the most part, those last three volumes will just reference prior work Knuth has done, and talk a lot about recursion.

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