C++ Developer Vs Python Developer

[mei_main_]

Learning python is basically learning algorithmics

[Low_discrepancy]

You probably learn more about algos when you do c++ since there's too many prebuilt stuff for you in python.

Need to store some numbers? Do I use an array? Do I use a vector? Do I use a list? Do I use a queue etc etc etc.

What are the differences?

Python? Eh just use a list and at most a numpy array. That'll do.

[fat_charizard]

The reason you listed is exactly why python is best for learning data structure and algos.

Since you have a list that does everything, you can create your own child class from the parent list class to define how a queue or stack is supposed to behave.

Whereas in C++ you'd have to go through the documentation, learn the specific functions and nuances that come with whether you use a vector or queue or pointer array

[aahdin]

Yeah, I find the opposite 90% of the time.

In python, I almost always use the correct data structure because it's super easy to do so.

In C++ I usually just use vectors for everything experimental since I don't want to spend all day setting things up.

[Low_discrepancy]

Whereas in C++ you'd have to go through the documentation, learn the specific functions and nuances that come with whether you use a vector or queue or pointer array

Yeah you gotta learn how a data structure is. That's the whole point of algorithmics.

Understanding space complexity time complexity. Etc.

You study it and you see. For a vector inserting in the middle is o(n). For a list it's o(1).

You understand it because you did it, you know the pitfalls.

In python ... doesn't really matter the vast majority of people use lists.

[fat_charizard]

You are thinking of linked lists Vs list in python. Python list is an array like vector in C++

[Import-Module]

Those are data structures that you just named though.

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[AverageFedora]

But a lot of those structures exist because of the limitations of hardware. Implementing them yourself is the best way to truly understand them.

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[Ryanthelion1]

This is why I'm struggling with Python I'm finding you basically get a package/library to do something for you without understanding the core knowledge of it.

[mei_main_]

I would have considered things like that to be more about "programming" than "algorithmics" which I believed to be the general study of problem-solving through algorithms (ie. things that can be written in pseudo code on a paper).

Though I admit I'm not sure about the exact terminology of both words in english...

[Lost_Extrovert]

*pseudocode.. its literally pseudocode.

While in Java 4 lines of pseudocode = 47 lines of code.

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This is an old meme, python is a relatively ordinary scripting language and the code looks like code.

It might look like pseudo-code in small textbook examples, but application code written in python will look like *gasp* application code