[wheaties]

Wait, what kind of company forces one of their programmers to take an intro level comp sci course? If you're going to let people hire someone to do a job, maybe you should either trust their judgement or have someone senior work with them to fix obvious defects?

I don't know, something about that just didn't sit right with me.

[Kudos]

That's almost certainly not what happened here. He was probably doing a Masters or something in a related field which had this requirement.