Comment by dschobel

I'll never forget when I was interviewing a candidate for a junior C# programming position and the conversation went as follows:

  me: Can you tell me what a delegate is?
  candidate: <text-book perfect definition, absolutely flawless>
  me: Great! Can you tell me when you would ever want to use one?
  candidate: <silence for about 15 seconds> I don't know.

It was so bizarre and I still don't fully understand how you can understand the absolutely perfect theoretical definition with having no, literally not one, idea what you're learning.