Thank you so much for saying this. I agree wholeheartedly and think this is a very important point to make. Really, the whole pattern of Why Don't You Know This Already is nothing but harmful. When someone learns something new and shares it, we shouldn't look down on them or demean them for not knowing it already. We all learn different things at different times, and not every CS program teaches the same things. Some are more math focused, some are more engineering focused, and even within those bounds there's space for a huge degree of variation. Let's not put people down because their degree didn't happen to teach something. Let's appreciate their excitement for learning that thing now.
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