Ask HN: Do Programmers from Different Universities Have Different Styles?

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by arthurjj • 9 years ago
2 0 9 years ago

My wife, who's a photographer, says some well known art schools produce artists with a similar styles. She wanted to know if the same was true of programming schools. Of the top of my head the best I could think of was:

* The CMU programmers I've worked with tended to use A.I. techniques as their tool of choice.

* The Stanford programmers seemed to care the most about metrics.

* RPI programmers tended to care the most about the business domain.

* MIT programmers tended to favor low level solutions/rolling their own solution.

But the sample size for all of these is ~5 per school. What does HN think?

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