News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Ask HN: Difficulties with Going Back to School by tylerhou on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @11:41AM (#43483431)
You know more than fresh graduates, but fresh graduates don’t absorb 100% of the material being taught — more like 50% at best, and many promptly forget that knowledge after taking the final. As someone who went back to school after about five years in SWE industry, I did (and still am) learning things in CS classes.

Granted I did know a lot of the material already, and I do go to Berkeley which has a comprehensive CS program, so YMMV. My main point is to not compare your knowledge to fresh grads knowledge to determine what they are taught.

There are no comments on this comment yet.