tbh if I were in a class taught by someone who had JUST finished their bachelor's degree, I'd take a lot of it with a grain of salt
And if you feel you have to take what you hear with a grain of salt, that's probably good for your learning too.
He took a break from TAing for some time, and when he returned he decided to have some fun with his application. He wrote a transpiler from a C like syntax to SML the day before his interview, and used it to joke that they should transition to teaching functional programming in C.