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Re:Dear HN "Who's Hiring" responders by ig1 on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:10AM (#5478334)
It's a relatively well studied area of programming pedagogy, numerous studies have shown students struggle with those concepts:

https://student.brighton.ac.uk/mod_docs/cmis/past%20papers/c...

Re:Dear HN "Who's Hiring" responders by uniclaude on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @07:49AM (#5478732)
Thank you for the link.

You wrote students, while I meant professional programmers. It's not because some people have a tougher time learning those things (whatever the reason can be) that they have no change to get them by the moment they are active professionals.

This said, if I tried to apply your grouping to the people I have been interviewing last year, I would have approximately 100% of them in one category, hence my comment.