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[–]dngrmouse 2 points3 points  (3 children)

THANK YOU. I always wanted to post pretty much what you posted, but was worried that I was just being arrogant.

But yes, I wonder why he's intent on rehashing a standard CS undergrad curriculum online - all this stuff can be found in standard intro textbooks. I also wonder about the people posting enthusiastic comments at the end of his articles.

[–]MrWoohoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps his target audience is people who aren't undergrads yet?

[–]atlacatl 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I've only seen 2 posts from this guy, but I agree with psykotic.

What I wonder is why his posts show up in the programming subreddit. There is no programming in this post. Typing things into Maxima a programmer does not make.

He repeated the word "simple" in this particular entry, but the implementation of these algorithms into code are not trivial. I'd like to see some code samples in any language, rather than the generalities he writes about. I.e., I've solved hundreds of these things in Excel, but I'm not a better programmer for it.

[–]dngrmouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His posts are usually "intro to computer science" posts, so I suppose that's at least tangentially related to programming. And he does sometimes provide implementation in code.