Is there any reference showing that this is the reason that people were asking about linked lists?
There is the old joke that organic chemistry saved more lives than penicillin by preventing dumb people from reaching med school. It’s a silly joke but it rests on some correlation between the kind of thinking needed for this course and needed to be successful doctor or medical student. If anything there is probably a stronger correlation between the kind of thinking needed for basic algorithms and data structure questions and the thinking needed to be a strong programmer.
The Armstrong report is problematic. Its main goal is to justify the conduct of the NYPD and it does so by inventing new theories of the crime. In presenting the report the committee members themselves said that they could not rule out the possibility that the defendants are completely innocent of the crime (which is the definition of “reasonable doubt “).
For some reporting on this committee at the time see
To be fair, it’s not just Reyes’s “word “. If you read the motion to vacate, Reyes gives a full account of the rape beginning to end that is consistent with the evidence and included some details only the attacker would know. There is also evidence that he was later in the park by himself and not with this group of teen agers.
Is there any reference showing that this is the reason that people were asking about linked lists?
There is the old joke that organic chemistry saved more lives than penicillin by preventing dumb people from reaching med school. It’s a silly joke but it rests on some correlation between the kind of thinking needed for this course and needed to be successful doctor or medical student. If anything there is probably a stronger correlation between the kind of thinking needed for basic algorithms and data structure questions and the thinking needed to be a strong programmer.