[mcgwiz]

Well put. I've been programming professionally for 8 years (and as a student for another 8 years prior--HP48G RPN represent!). And to this day, I find myself regularly attracted to articles, books, and blog posts about "basic" lower-division CS topics: principles of object-oriented design, language design, patterns, compilers, etc. It's the same old stuff, but reading it is more enriching and insightful the more real-world programming experience you have.

[stinos]

yep. When I just started I struggled through GoF's Design Patterns and even sorta tricked myself into believing I understood it. Well, I didn't. At all. 5 years later though it was one of the most insightful and useful reads ever.