If you don't teach yourself to program on your own while you are doing a CS degree, chances are good that you won't be able to step into a software job and be e

If you don't teach yourself to program on your own while you are doing a CS degree, chances are good that you won't be able to step into a software job and be effective without considerable ramp up time. I've seen too many people when I was in school myself and subsequently interviewing recent grads, where people knew all the theory, but could barely pass a FizzBuzz test. You just don't actually have to write enough code in most CS programs to become competent at it, without doing it for outside reasons.