Algorithms and Programmer's day-to-day job

Posted by Lior Kogan on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Lior Kogan
Published on 2012-07-10T20:19:35Z Indexed on 2012/07/10 21:23 UTC
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As of July 10, 2012, Stack Overflow contains 3,345,864 questions, out of which 20,840 questions are tagged as "Algorithm" - this is less than 0.6% !

I find it disturbing. Many programmers have several years of academic education in computer science / software engineering. Most of them are smart... When asked, most would say that they love algorithms.

Computer programming is generally about solving problems using algorithms... Yet, only 1 of 160 questions is tagged as algorithm related.

What does it say about our profession?

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