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I failed so hard at this in my CS degree :(

Yeah. I had what was termed a "tolerated fail" on what I think was the equivalent on my (UK) course - "Foundations of Computer Science". Tolerated as in because I scored high in all other modules I didn't have to resit, fortunately, as I'm not convinced I'd have passed.

I'm not convinced either that it's negatively affected my career. I do occasionally wonder if it was just not taught in a way I could get, whether I was just bored to tears because the theory was so separate from the application, or if it's actually just not that important a prerequisite.

Yeah I had the same, I have been developing now at various levels for 15 years since university and I can honestly say I have never once come across anything that has needed it! Then again I would say seeing as I am primarily web based it's not likely I would vs someone coding realtime systems

You're not the only one. Only course that I took that I crashed and burned on.

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