>>11857439>In this case, what is "learning the entire curriculum"? He "passed the final exams" and "fairly scored himself" based on the answer sheets. He spent a week doing the problem sets, doing some notes, and then taking the final.
Yeah, I don't buy going through a semester's worth of material in a week. You could superficially do this and just watch all the material, but as for actually retaining the knowledge and being able to apply it? There are studies that show you need to stagger learning to actually retain information for manipulation and nontrivial use. There is more to schooling and learning than acquisition of information...and even then recall of information isn't guaranteed on such an abbreviated schedule.
>done something tangible with the material he learned.that would have actually required him to commit to learning something without superficial markers of progress. It would have unravelled the whole exercise as actual mental masturbation - it's clear he's not retaining any of this.
And this isn't defending CS - replace this with any other stem degree, and I'd call major bullshit.
