The more egregious thing schools don't teach is working in large existing codebases, i.e., the skill of reading and figuring out code. Instead they focus on /w

The more egregious thing schools don't teach is working in large existing codebases, i.e., the skill of reading and figuring out code. Instead they focus on /writing/ code. In the process of writing code, at least some incidental debugging experience is gained (this article is actually an example of that -- the debugging wasn't formally taught, but the assignment clearly forced the author to learn it a bit), but almost no /reading/ code experience. It took me a while in industry to make up for this deficit.