Your comment, and many others, seem to make an unstated assumption that CS programs are all alike. To your point that a "CS degree doesn't actually teach you..

Your comment, and many others, seem to make an unstated assumption that CS programs are all alike. To your point that a "CS degree doesn't actually teach you... [about] building a website, or building an app", I can only say that any number of classes that were part of my 1987 degree (Rochester Institute of Technology) are directly applicable: -- fundamentals of computer graphics -- data management (btrees, isam files...) -- networking and client/server programming -- analysis of algorithms (performance and optimization) -- discrete math (boolean logic, binary math, octal/decimal number systems) My degree gave me the tools to understand computing concepts and that has served me quite well even though most of the tools, languages, and hardware that I use today didn't even exist when I was in college.