>If you don't know how to start chipping away at a problem, if you don't have a fire in your belly to go dig in, then you're a fraud. I'm not even sure what yo

>If you don't know how to start chipping away at a problem, if you don't have a fire in your belly to go dig in, then you're a fraud. I'm not even sure what you were looking for. If I don't know any graph theory, then my first reaction is to google what you just asked: "shortest route between two points on a directed graph". Knowing graph theory sounds like "the means to figure it out" from the conversation. If you think everyone needs to know graph theory to write code, then I guess that's a fine opinion, but that's not a widely held opinion. It's not common knowledge to people looking to join the field that you'd need to know that.