Comments by "Jeffrey Phipps" (@jeffreyphipps1507) on "3 Types of Algorithms Every Programmer Needs to Know" video.

I think this is essential for a more important reason. A programmer may never use any of these directly, but the knowledge that these mechanics imprint can be used in other places. I had an instructor once who wanted students to make a faster sort. Spending the time to do that wasn't worth it - I already knew seven sort methods. I dropped the course and told him why. I later retook the course with another instructor. What I didn't learn the first time was that I could use methodologies from three sorts to leverage different data structures that I had never seen before. You may never know that until an instructor tells you that. The first one didn't, the second one did. The difference was that the first instructor was also a math instructor and taught theory. The second was also a systems analyst instructor used to teaching OS design. His POV was different. I learned something else from that experience - I later became an instructor, and I had learned that not everybody's background/experience is the same. When answering a question, it's a good idea to know what the student's experiences are.
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