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by 908B64B197 2150 days ago
There's a reason why whiteboard interviews are so popular: they seek to find candidates that have strong CS fundamentals. It's much easier to jump from languages to frameworks or ecosystem once you have a strong grasp of fundamentals than it is if you only learned how to make apps using one framework.

I've seen self taught students really struggle with introductory courses because they assumed they would breeze through fundamentals because they already knew how to build web-apps.