Ask HN: What do you consider to be the fundamentals of programming?
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That's a good question. I would say architectures and data structures, generally.
We tend to get into the weeds as programmers, but 9/10ths of it is the above. If you approach the problem in the right way, everything is easy. The wrong way and everything is hard.
We tend to get into the weeds as programmers, but 9/10ths of it is the above. If you approach the problem in the right way, everything is easy. The wrong way and everything is hard.
To you in your career, are there some things you consider to be deep fundamentals to what you do that really benefit your work? What are these fundamentals?
To me, understanding how some algorithms work is not fundamental, for example. But understanding where your code actually goes to (think of the logic gates in a processor) is fundamental to understanding what it is that I'm doing (and not thinking of things as magic)