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RE: Teaching students memory managment

Jani Hartikainen has written an excellent post in reply to my earlier post about teaching software engineering students memory management, and his post is well worth a read.  I started off writing a comment on his post as a reply but I ended up writing more than I expected as I refined my ideas.
I agree [...]

Teaching students memory managment

Yesterday morning I spent a fascinating hour or so in a meeting listening to a very senior engineer give and in depth presentation about the performance characteristics of the low level memory systems on a console and the content of the presentation got me thinking about how software engineering is taught.  Specifically are students being [...]