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		LgWoodenBadger 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Computer science courses that don't exist, but sho... I would have loved a class on the Theory of Version Control. Unfortunately, I didn't learn about it until my first job after I graduated. Architectures (centralized, distributed), implementations (diffs, patches, full state, etc.), branches, merges, etc.

Taikonerd 3 months ago [–]

Yes! I was a CS major. But when I got my first job out of school in 2005, I had never encountered version control before. It was very hard learning that from zero, on top of everything else that everyone learns in their first job.

All of which is to say: yes, this should totally be a course!

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