Relatedly, undergrads are often way below undergrad level in courses that they haven’t taken lately. Like, if you take someone who just graduated with a physics major and get them to retake finals from sophomore physics without prep, I bet they’ll often get wrecked.
As a professional computer scientist, I often feel like my knowledge advantage over recent grads is that I know the content of intro CS classes better than they do.
Relatedly, undergrads are often way below undergrad level in courses that they haven’t taken lately. Like, if you take someone who just graduated with a physics major and get them to retake finals from sophomore physics without prep, I bet they’ll often get wrecked.
As a professional computer scientist, I often feel like my knowledge advantage over recent grads is that I know the content of intro CS classes better than they do.