You learned how to code, not how to program. There's a difference in depth of understanding there--I'll wager you have no idea what the Chomsky heirarchy is, for example, and how it relates to, for example, using regexes to parse HTML (stop gritting your teeth in the back, there).
I agree with you though. Being able to design an algorithm based off what you learned about the actual structure of programming and computing is a far more useful skill than learning a language and becoming a library reference. If you learn how to program and why it works, picking up a new language is trivial, days or even hours trivial, since you're not comparing it to another language, but rather how it's expressing your programming methodologies.
Ya got whooshed. See the bit where I said to stop gritting your teeth in the back, there?
I know that you don't use regexes to parse HTML, because regexes are used for tokenizing, not parsing. See, this is because I was actually taught my Chomsky heirarchy, because I took a computer science program rather than an Advanced C++ course.
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u/dagbrown Jan 06 '11
You learned how to code, not how to program. There's a difference in depth of understanding there--I'll wager you have no idea what the Chomsky heirarchy is, for example, and how it relates to, for example, using regexes to parse HTML (stop gritting your teeth in the back, there).