I completely agree - that's why I encourage only sticking to basic questions and accepting fairly vague answers as long as they're in the right direction. Maybe

I completely agree - that's why I encourage only sticking to basic questions and accepting fairly vague answers as long as they're in the right direction. Maybe your python knowledge isn't perfect, but you know how to solve it in another language. I'm good with that. Maybe you don't know the exact name of a data structure in the python standard library, as long as you can describe what you're looking for I'll point you in the right direction. The people who don't know when to use a hashmap instead of a list of structs are the ones who concern me. So are the ones who just can't get started at all. Sure, platforms change, languages change, but basic data structures don't, and basic OOP doesn't either. You've probably worked with many of the same data structures on many of those platforms and have a working understanding of OOP that you can describe - maybe not perfectly, but well enough.