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Re: Learn to Code: Anyone move into programming in their career? [Francois] [ In reply to ]
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I don't like most of the 'new' CS program approaches because they don't teach fundamentals. So, use the language as support (you can pick pretty much anything that high level enough) but focus on the algorithmic problem solving skills.

Yes, yes, I understand. As an example, after thinking about it all weekend I decided to throw away three days worth of coding because I figured out how to do it much more efficiently in a manner that is easier to troubleshoot, and more importantly, easier to modify later. This will actually be the third iteration on this subroutine that I wrote a year ago. Version 1 was a complete mess. It got mostly right answers, but it was so convoluted that I don't think another person on the planet would be able to figure it out.

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Re: Learn to Code: Anyone move into programming in their career? [Big Endian] [ In reply to ]
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BTW, I learned FORTRAN 77 in college. I currently code in SAS.

The most important difference between the two, as far as I'm concerned? SAS tells me exactly what and where my errors are!!!!! FORTRAN was a pain to debug.

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