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by staunton 1097 days ago
> And then people would need to take those classes as well, and not just claim they can write React apps just fine without a degree.

Weird tangent. They can write React apps without a degree, can't they? What's wrong with that?

The amount of complexity reasoning you need for something like that is around "this part seems slow, maybe there's a better algorithm somewhere" or "that's a lot of nested loops, maybe I can do with less". Knowing more might help in some pretty rare cases but doesn't seem like a requirement. On the other hand, knowing the complexity of all algorithms and blindly assuming "good complexity = good performance" while never checking is a recipe for desaster.

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> On the other hand, knowing the complexity of all algorithms and blindly assuming "good complexity = good performance" while never checking is a recipe for desaster.

Exactly. That's the difference between an actual education and having looked up some Big-O notation on Wikipedia.