[rescue] slow java code...an example of why it might be happ ening

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:26:15PM -0500, Michael A. Turner wrote:
>
> > 	As a recent graduate with a CS degree I must say that you are
> > exactly correct. I only had one class with a section involving Big O theory
> > of optimizing and it was taught by a teacher that is best described as
> > brutal so everyone avoided his class. The other instructor that taught the
> > same class, which everyone took, did not teach this at all.
>
> Big O notation.  I had one class that covered that.  It was a real waste
> of time.  I take that back.  I had two classes that covered it.  The
> first (a CS class) was a waste of my time.  The second class was
> Numerical Analysis (a math class).  That was a brutal class.

Pretty scary that today's CS grads feel that complexity analysis is a
waste of time....