Oh, my point was that the parent comment was being obnoxious by calling out the hyperbolic title (which is a totally normal place for hyperbole) when they thems

Oh, my point was that the parent comment was being obnoxious by calling out the hyperbolic title (which is a totally normal place for hyperbole) when they themselves used hyperbole to tell their own anecdote. Like it was just a dumb thing to call out. I do agree that students who come into college often have an advantage, but they often have less of an advantage than they think, and it costs them because they end up not actually learning some of the less obvious skills that are being taught in a course setting. I found that the _best_ students in my cohort were those who started college with almost no programming experience but put in a lot of work. The next batch were those who came in with significant experience but were willing to reflect on it and adapt to the new information. Then kind of everybody else was mixed in depending on how they had taken things individually with no clear distinction between those with prior experience and those without.