[lightbendover]

Databases were not part of my CS curriculum until I took an elective web development course at the very end. People struggled. I had been doing hobbyist web development since I was quite young so the whole class was a breeze for me, but I understand that for those who are only taught the fundamentals and theory, anything pragmatic can feel daunting. I'm sure curriculums have changed greatly since I went through (KV/graph stores were not yet adopted, distributed DBs were merely a thought), but it still doesn't feel quite right for faulting a student for choosing certain classes or not being perfectly suited for learning a given domain instantly.

[redeux]

My point is about not assuming people know specific topics in CS just because they have a CS degree. So, I feel like we agree here. There were no problems with his attitude, and it was a quick fix. I just assumed he knew, having recently gotten a CS degree and I was wrong.