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Ask HN: Are “theoretical” concepts being lost by new engineers? (derp.foo)

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I've dealt with a lot of developers in the past ~4 years and I've noticed a lot of them didn't have the "basic" theoretical concepts that I considered widespread and universal about Software Engineering and Computer Science. For example, engineers putting a lot of logic in their unit tests, or choosing the wrong data structures, etc.

Maybe it's because of the advent of self taught engineers? Or maybe these concepts are just "too boring"? I'd like to know if I'm biased or not.

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