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by knicholes 1231 days ago
I did the opposite. I received what I believed to basically be a bachelors in math with very little real-life coding skills. Yeah, I programmed a ton in my classes, but looking back it was "spaghetti code." I've had to read about principles and patterns of software engineering almost unrelentingly to feel up-to-speed. Thank heavens for "Clean Code."

Boy, I can't wait until that magical day where I can bust out my knowledge of that Pumping Lemma, though, for those proofs I need to... always be writing...?