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Yeah, you're making the exactly point of the parent comments: remembering sophomore-year CS courses != being a good developer.

You might as well be quizzing people on Calculus. That's another thing you study in a freshman-year CS course, so you must remember it, right?

(I'll say this: I've had far more practical occasion to use Calculus than binary tree manipulation in the 20+ years of my professional coding career. Particularly with AI.)



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