I'll rank those three fruits from largest to smallest:
1. Grapefruit
2. Orange
3. Blueberry
The grapefruit is definitely the largest of these three fruits - they're typically around 4-6 inches in diameter. Oranges are usually 2-3 inches in diameter, and blueberries are the smallest at roughly 0.5 inches in diameter.
It is very often wrong, but (at least ChatGPT4) outputs proper names correctly. Principles/Patters may seem similar for someone who hasn't been around long enough to see the whole hype cycle of "Gang of Four" seminal work.
All knowledge, by definition, had to be first learned by someone. That person didn’t have an exams or someone testing their knowledge.
As a child I looked to exams and grades to validate my knowledge. However I got A’s on exams and felt like I still knew nothing. As I got older I care less about external validation and more about my internal “self grader”.
A few ways you can test yourself is building something. Take your knowledge and apply it.
Or try to teach someone. If you can’t explain the concepts clearly then maybe you don’t understand it as well as you think you do.
Or pretend your the teacher, write your own exams and take them. Ask yourself, “what questions would I ask students to tell if they know something?”
Lastly, and this one I like the least, find some tests or exams online, books that have questions at the end, etc.
Exams mostly don't assess knowledge and understanding, only snapshot regurgitation of facts and snippets. Additionally, when one takes an exam it's rare to require 100% correct to "pass" (and even when that does happen it's only 100% of the sliver of the total subject matter that was assessed).
I know plenty of people (as I'm sure we all do) that can pass a test and still be functionally useless in a particular field.
Not that I'm against exams (and I'll lump in certifications), I just don't think they're the silver bullet many make them out to be at least in the tech industry.
Same way you learn anything, read all about it then use what you read to implement something. When the something you implemented works and solves the problem, you've learned something! Repeat forever with different things (and sometimes with things you haven't done for a while). Each time you learn something new.
Exams are a hacky stand-in for actually using a concept to solve real world problems.
Why do you need external validation of what you know? Is a test going to demonstrate that you know something? Is it going to demonstrate that you know what you need to know, or what the person who designed the test thinks you need to know? And all that aside, what use is the test score? Is that something you'd put on a resume?
Here's my example. I'm currently learning test automation. There are courses for that on Udemy, so I can choose "Test automation with Selenium and Python".
The next step is to google "demo projects for test automation", pick one, and apply that knowledge. If you still need more, pick another.
I suppose the person that assesses my knowledge the most is myself. You know you understand the concept when you can use it and build on it with other learning.
I'll rank those three fruits from largest to smallest:
1. Grapefruit 2. Orange 3. Blueberry
The grapefruit is definitely the largest of these three fruits - they're typically around 4-6 inches in diameter. Oranges are usually 2-3 inches in diameter, and blueberries are the smallest at roughly 0.5 inches in diameter.