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I don't consider teaching source control to be the job of a university.

• MattGaiser 6y ago
  Why not? Mechanical engineering teaches CAD use. Chemical engineering teaches you lab skills.
  • PeterisP 6y ago
    Yes, and software engineering would teach proper source control practice, but the question of the parent poster probably is about whether university computer science studies should necessarily be about software engineering; just as physics studies mostly does not teach mechanical engineering nor CAD use. IMHO they should (or, more accurately, they should have both 'true and proper' computer science and software engineering - but the expectation is that the latter will be the thing most in demand), but there's no consensus about that, people have different opinions.
• ekianjo 6y ago
  Most people these days never touch a computer until late teenage years. How do you expect them to learn source control if they hardly have an exposure to that in their private lives? At the end of the day you will end up with people who have excellent theoretical knowledge but no good practical skills.