What UCLA is doing, as well as most universities is the difference between a university and a trade school. these courses do, and should focus on the fundament

What UCLA is doing, as well as most universities is the difference between a university and a trade school. these courses do, and should focus on the fundamentals. University is teaching the theory, and having a fundamental understanding. Otherwise there are ample trade schools and code camps, that will skip the fundamentals, and teach you the basics of programming tailored to the current job markets needs. As for the argument that C++ isn't good learning language, I beg to differ, it gets you very close to the meat of how programming works, without the layers of abstraction that higher languages offer. C++ requires that you understand memory, its allocation, and allows you easily to see how it interacts.