I don't understand how the title connects with the article at all. If you professors thought you the opposite of what you said here... where in the world did you study?
I've never had anyone tell me that lines of code matter in a sense that it makes software better or worse, or that we're supposed to type code 8 hours a day. That's literally the experience that people told me they had in bootcamps, not in the university.
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I don't understand how the title connects with the article at all. If you professors thought you the opposite of what you said here... where in the world did you study?
I've never had anyone tell me that lines of code matter in a sense that it makes software better or worse, or that we're supposed to type code 8 hours a day. That's literally the experience that people told me they had in bootcamps, not in the university.
I went to the rank 2 CS university (at least in the states, but I think world at the time), University of Washington.