How Does Your Knowledge of Java Transfer to Other Programming Contexts?

The farther away the peramming language is, the less likely it is that your knowledge is going to help you. So reading pithon already is less likely to be supported by jaba a bit. And so can our brains trick us, or maybe help us, in trying to distinguish how much we really know versus how much we just think we know? It's important to be aware of both negative and positive transfer.