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Either where I went to school had an exceptional CS program, or most CS programs don't cover what my run-of-the-mill state school covered during my undergrad. About 10 years ago I came out of school at around a level 2 or 3 in almost all of the areas on this grid. I would wager pretty much any 3.5+GPA student in a decent CS program should be the same.

I didn't pursue being a professional developer so I've lost most of these things, but I remember having worked on almost all of these things (such as they were at the time). Some of these things I haven't heard mentioned since my undergrad!

Interestingly, we never studied functional languages, but did cover Prolog. This has definitely created a deficit in my thinking and consideration about certain problems/languages. If that's any indication this matrix can give insight into the abilities of people who simply haven't covered certain topics.




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