I was taught "UML" at university (UK, 10 years ago). I say "UML" because while that was the name given, we probably only had a few hours on it in my entire degr

I was taught "UML" at university (UK, 10 years ago). I say "UML" because while that was the name given, we probably only had a few hours on it in my entire degree, and it was essentially boxes and arrows, with class names and methods, and the basics of sequence diagrams. I think it was valuable. I suspect many engineers use simple diagrams in notebooks on a regular basis, and by introducing it very early in the degree it gave us another tool to help think about the code we were writing. It wasn't actually UML, but I think it's a good thing to cover at the beginning of a course.