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Jean-Michel Plourde

I am in university right now to become a computer engineer. My uni is specialised in hardware. We have some coding classes, the main language is C++ with some class in Python (AI and data science). It really depends on the prof; my data structure class was with a terrible prof that was just plain garbage. My current OOP teacher (for monetary reason they wouldn'T credit that class) is a top of the league C++ programmer that covers a lot of stuff, only accepts the best and gives extra points for efforts.

But of course, this is just uni/college. They teach you basic, the difference between what you learn in school and as a professional is insane. College/uni is like a game: you have to play by the rules to obtain the paper to have profesionnal consideration in the public and private sectors.

You have to learn things on the side to truly acquire much needed skills. I am just very disappointed that most schools won't teach you code versionning, tests, doc reading, basic sysadmin tools, etc.