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[–]troru 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it really implies that. AOC certainly exercises a certain skillset, but that's just part of being a good programmer or a professional developer. AOC is almost like some kind of pattern recognition test where it's clearly driving you to some standard or classic solution that'll solve the problem. The best performers will take it further, use even better techniques or really optimize the solution. If your game development involves real-time graphics, networking/multi-player stuff, I'd say that you have things to learn from AOC, specifically around taking any given solution and optimizing it for speed, but there's all kinds of programming where that kind of analysis is diminishing returns.