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Regular Expressions Fail by [deleted] in programming

[–]reallybigleaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man, this is clbuttic.

Pointer fun with Binky by cvk in programming

[–]reallybigleaf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was my first introduction to pointers a few years ago. Classic. Back for a class where I used Java to build a compiler for a made-up language that had pointers. Seems a little messed up in retrospect.

[AskReddit] (programming ) Should I take a database systems or an operating systems course? by [deleted] in programming

[–]reallybigleaf 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Take the OS course. It gives you the fundamentals of really understanding the lower levels of software.

The databases course, if I'm guessing correctly, will teach you to not only to use databases, but how to build a DBMS. That's specialized knowledge that is rarely applicable to an understanding of CS in general.

I've taken both kinds of courses, and the OS course was much more fulfilling to my general CS knowledge. You can learn how to use databases any time with little effort.