>>start teaching way more programming. The biggest regret of my education was that I was mostly taught how to use Geospatial tools rather than how to make my ow

>>start teaching way more programming. The biggest regret of my education was that I was mostly taught how to use Geospatial tools rather than how to make my own.<< This, a thousand times over. During my first geography degree I had a lot of GIS modules. I loved it, the capabilities it offered and so on. But it soon became clear that if you wanted to become genuinely good at it, you needed to learn programming, or at the very least have a very basic understanding of it. In this respect, my course was woefully inadequate; professors would perhaps touch upon it rather tangentially, and my requests to include programming in the course modules were brushed off. "You'll do more of that during your Masters!" they said. The reality is that even the MSc had very little of it. If I could say something to all those fresh-faced GIS undergrads, is this: learn programming; it will give you a much better understanding of how it works, it will greatly increase your capabilities in terms of what you can do (as Waterluvian so eloquently said). For those of you wondering, I did my undergrad in the UK, graduated in 2009. Also, greetings from a fellow geographer!