I suspect the same could be said for a variety of more "practical" arts — plumbing, carpentry, etc. There are blueprints and code — and then there's what you find when you start to take a level to the walls or open up into the drywall or peer under the joists …
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What Compsci textbooks don’t tell you: Real world code sucks [printer-friendly] • The Register
There’s a kind of cognitive dissonance in most people who’ve moved from the academic study of computer science to a job as a real-world software developer. The conflict lies in the fact that, whereas …
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