This topic hit home for me because I am graduating this year with a CS degree. As many of you have pointed out, a CS degree doesn't teach you how to program. I

This topic hit home for me because I am graduating this year with a CS degree. As many of you have pointed out, a CS degree doesn't teach you how to program. I think it does give you a base of knowledge that you can then build upon to become a great coder. I would say that 30% of my programming skill and knowledge comes from what I learned in class, while 70% comes from reading, watching lectures online, having friends critique my code, looking at open source projects, etc. But without that initial, introductory training from my CS department I would never have been in a position to understand those other topics. Personally I would love to see a community effort to put together a free, open source "bridge the gap" curriculum for new college grads. It would focus mostly on coding best practices, code reviews, the importance of tests, engineering work flows, version control, staging servers, etc. In particular I think it should focus on real-world codebases as opposed to the one-off programs you constantly write in academia. Sure you can learn most of this stuff at your first job, but I think there are a ton of people out there who would love to learn this stuff, but they don't really know what they need to learn or where to start.