Where I went to school, they didn't teach programming at all. First day, first class, if I remember correctly, the teacher walks up in front of the class and sa

Where I went to school, they didn't teach programming at all. First day, first class, if I remember correctly, the teacher walks up in front of the class and says something like, "Computer science is the design and implementation of algorithms..." and finishes with saying they won't teach us any programming. The assignments must be implemented in C and run on campus computers. There are optional, zero credit labs to get help learning to program or get help with homework held by the TA's. I went to one lab, the lab computers and all campus computers were running Slackware with Afterstep. I was a Window Maker and Red Hat user at the time, I was impressed and thought it was neat. Of course this is from memory and 18 years ago almost to the day, but that's the gist of it. Anyway, I felt like I learned a ton and loved it every bit. I went to a few of the CS club meetings and got the impression basically every one had already had internships with Intel, IBM, or Microsoft. This was my freshmen year and was basically in awe.