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		rnprince on Aug 7, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009) By the time you've memorized all the cases where a binary tree does and doesn't make sense, you might as well have just learned how they work.

louthy on Aug 7, 2017 [–]

Exactly. I'd be very wary of any professional that hadn't had the intellectual curiosity to at least understand how they work, never mind actually try to implement one.

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