i find mine taught me literally nothing useful for the job. there was an extremely steep learning curve when i started my first junior role at a big software company as a platform engineer. we dealt with a something i had no theory knowledge about and nothing at college could have prepared me. is that the same for everyone else?
sure, it taught me how to code, but i did a bootcamp as well during uni which taught the same thing... i can count how many useful college classes i had on one hand..... literally maybe 2-3 classes, if even. the most useful one was probably about databases (only because my bootcamp didnt teach SQL) but even then, that couldve been self taught, there was a lot of extra theory in that class u didnt need to know. it didnt rlly help explain infra for example, which im STRUGGLING with at work (understanding the infra of my teams system)
i wish we had a uni class which taught best practise infra u see in the industry
then the other useful uni class i can point to was DSA but again.... self-teachable too. find the right course on youtube, the right practise questions , and you're set?
discrete math in college, sure, it taught skills but... do we ever use the THEORY on the job? no... its just a "good to have" , understanding logic and whatnot, which is pretty much the crux of programming anyway? so u dont need a fancy discrete math class?
OK yes i took some classes that explained agile practises and whatever but cmon you can pick that up in your first job / first internship in like a week, by ACTUALLY PRACTISING IT instead of learning about it, no?
anyway the entire point is.... i feel like if i didnt do my degree, and just did the bootcamp i did, i wouldnve ended up in the same place. the bootcamp taught me React, which college didn't, and i got my first software role cos of React so 🤷 it also had interview questions and stuff like that that college never covers so, i would have had to do extra work anyway?
oh and most importantly it gave me projects and a portfolio, which again, i would have had to do that ontop of uni??