• Akrenion@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    This is not a hard problem once you wrap your head around it. It is the earliest that some programmers learn about recursion which has a lot of pitfalls and can be frustrating at times.

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      9 months ago

      Ah okay, that’s where the trauma comes from then, perhaps? 😅 Just being new to a concept and perhaps starting out with a problem that is a little too big while at the same time learning the concept?

      • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        I feel like it’s maybe a bit too much to say that it’s a trauma. The Vietnam-flashback picture is just very fitting, because the puzzle is called “Towers of Hanoi” (Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam).

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          A lot of programmer memes seem to be about first-year compsci students that just want to build video games, and don’t really like math. For those people, sure, algorithms could be a bit of a rude awakening.

    • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com
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      9 months ago

      Thank god my first time was building a dynamic tree with loads of metadata and sorting from database records and not some strange game 😐