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I don't think you can memorize how code works enough to explain it and not learn codding.
It's super easy to learn how algorithms and what not work without knowing the syntax of a language. I can tell you how a binary search tree works, but I have no clue how to code it in Java because I've never used Java.
And similarly, i could read code in a language I dont know, understand what it does and how it works even if I don't know the syntax well enough to write it myself
Yeah, exactly. At least any fairly modern language. I don't think I could just pick up assembly and read it without the class I took. Heck, I don't think I could read it anymore now that it's been several years since that class.
I mean same, but you can look to the official docs for like what a loop or queue looks like
Not during a test. But maybe in those 20 hours they have.
Oh right I forgot about closed book tests. Been a while
Haven't taken a cert in a while either?
Never. Do you recommend it?
I ended up in the system administration world where certs are strongly recommended. In app dev, I have no idea.
I'm a full stack polyglot and tbh I couldn't program in some languages without reference docs / LLM even though I ship production code in those language all the time. Memorizing all of the function and method names and all of the syntax/design pattern stuff is pretty hard especially when it's not really needed in contemporary dev.
Yeah a doctor has to read up on a disease in a book when they encounter it. Completely normal
You'd think that, but I believe you are underestimating people's ability to mindlessly memorize stuff without learning it.
It's what we're trained to do throughout our education system.
I have a hard time getting mad about it considering it's what we told them to do from a very young age.
I'm pretty sure chatgpt just tells you how it works, so they probably just memorized what it said.
Exactly my thought