I always hated (and probably always will hate) the complete absence of these things from university curricula. If you take a graduate student who only coded his assignments, learned for exams and has zero industry experience (like a summer internship or something), then he’ll graduate and realize that there is A LOT he must learn. These kind of students never heard of version control, unit testing, agile programming, requirements gathering and much more. I’m extremely grateful that I have the opportunity to learn this stuff before I graduate.

It’s a shame, but the good news is that a lot of passionate students will pick these things up by learning on their own. I like that.

Again: excelent blog post, really enjoyed reading it.