Indeed. In my most challenging and valuable CS classes, the ones I think about still to this day, the grades were practically irrelevant. We spent most of our

Indeed. In my most challenging and valuable CS classes, the ones I think about still to this day, the grades were practically irrelevant. We spent most of our time looking over our solutions, talking about why one person did it one way and another person did it another way. We could tell when a solution was efficient or elegant, and when a solution was awkward or clumsy. And we all learned from it. We never compared each other's grades. Honestly, I have no idea what anyone else's grade ever was. And today I have no idea what my own grades ever were. But when our project was up on the screen for the whole class to see, we knew right away where we stood relative to our peers. And that is every bit as true today in my work as it was back then. "Un-grading" strikes me as better preparation for being a real-world contributor and, dare I say, leader, than grades.