This paradigm only works when looking strictly though the lens of a "software engineer". I like to think about computer science the same way I think about drugs

This paradigm only works when looking strictly though the lens of a "software engineer". I like to think about computer science the same way I think about drugs. Excel is a great gateway drug. VBA, Python, powershell, SQL - now you're getting into the harder stuff. Pure C, scala, assembly - now you know that one guy on the east coast who makes the designer stuff, just the way Prince liked it. The question is how deep is your bottom, what you know about going down in the deep end?