Such life... But there are many reasons. There is a lot to teach ! hw knowledge, asm, C and scripting languages at minimum. Then Lisp and functional languages

Such life... But there are many reasons. There is a lot to teach ! hw knowledge, asm, C and scripting languages at minimum. Then Lisp and functional languages and rest. And that just a syntax that takes years to be proficient with. Then you discover that all of them are full of if's and loops (or recursions) and you start to smile from language flame wars. But still you need to concentrate on syntax of one or two languages. So, years. Then there are algorithms - for all kind of things. Years. And then there is domain of the problem ! Totally not related to languages syntax. Simply - programmers are in much worse position then journalists :) And domains are not part of uni program. Except some like eg. databases. Also: on first year in uni we had fellow who learned good programming skills before, in a mid school. And he asked: I know how to program, why I need all that math ?? And dropped. And on the other hand - few years into uni one of professors said: there is no point to be a programmer without somekindof algebra. So what actually "skill of programming" is ? So 5 years of learning programming is just not enough. Maybe joining some existing long term project could help - like kernel or some game. That is, without dropping CS :)