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Discussion on: What was the hardest concept you had to wrap your head around?

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Arika O

Did you use to have the premature optimization "issues" even as a junior? I'm still at that that point whee first I make the code work and maybe at the end I try to refactor it, but I can't really code with optimization in mind. I guess it's an experience thing? And I fell the pain of all the other points except for the last one, cos' I never used assembly language.

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Austin S. Hemmelgarn

Actually, yes, I had the same issue even when starting out. I was a bit of an odd case at that point though because I already knew a lot more about the low level operation of computer hardware and the mathematics underpinning theoretical computer science than a vast majority of new developers do.