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> Teaching the former is like teaching a physicist all the different kinds of gear systems, rather than the math that lets you model them.

Most programming work is less like theoretical physics and more like car repairing.




Programming is trial and error. Anybody who tells you otherwise is a salesman.


Speak for yourself.




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