Probably depends on how they make curriculum. Some of the things I remember having been taught: runge-kutta analythic geometry turbo pascal (or one of hi

Probably depends on how they make curriculum. Some of the things I remember having been taught: runge-kutta analythic geometry turbo pascal (or one of his relatives) DFA/NFA Some of the things I find useful at work: memory and cache behaviour on different archs Dijkstra's algorithm posix I mean, chance of being lucky to learn exactly the things that will be useful in programming (as opposed to other less volatile arts) is a small one.