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by specialist 931 days ago
Sorting, searching, caching. (ducks)
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In case anyone missed the ducks in the traditional CS curriculum:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

https://themindcollection.com/atwoods-duck/

Naming things.
Ya, I second guessed myself. First in, then I thought "Naw, some pendant will say 'ackewlwally, that's software engineering'". Next time, I promise to take the principled stand.
CS not software engineering.
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