Hello list, I am a programmer who just got laid off. I have been studying Haskell and learning a lot about CS, *as a hobby*. I have a B.S. from Caltech in engineering (didn't take many CS classes). Now that my options are open, I'd like to think about graduate school in CS which is probably the academic subject I love most in the world. But I didn't take many CS classes in college, and my job was garden-variety programming, mostly to someone else's design and process rules. My real CS experience comes from my hobbies such as learning Haskell. But that leaves me without a way to prove my ability, at least not by showing recent schoolwork or having any recommendations from CS professors. I hardly know anything about how graduate schools evaluate candidates. So what I am wondering is, could I use a demonstration of my self-study to demonstrate ability? I'm not sure what form that would take, but I'm just trying to look at every angle right now. Thanks, Johann