It really depends. Mine had a whole lot of classes that focused more on the theoretical CS, but I had two different assembly language classes, for very differen

It really depends. Mine had a whole lot of classes that focused more on the theoretical CS, but I had two different assembly language classes, for very different processor architectures, and I had a class on OO that, fr all intents and purposes, was about teaching practical programming. Different schools do different things. One thing seems pretty clear to me though: If you let people that can't write code graduate, you are doing them, and your program, a disservice. The most theory driven industry jobs I have ever seen, and I have seen many, require coding competence.