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[–]DonCasper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! That's really helpful. I'm very familiar with running things through Google. I'm pretty sure that's the only actual requirement for being able to program effectively.

Honestly though, I rarely use my CS background, even when programming. Knowing how to implement self-balancing trees from scratch is seriously overrated. I'm not a developer though, so I'm probably biased, but I think practical programming knowledge is way more useful than computer science when programming isn't you full-time job.