A coworker of mine was working on some programming homework and we chatted about it. He was having trouble adding a b-tree sort function to something. I asked a few questions about how python handles that (it’s what they teach now) and explained how we’d do it in c. Made the mistake of asking “what is this for, course number of the second semester class?” No, he’s graduating in the fall.

I flunked out of computer science twenty years ago.