I (and many others) spent many times this amount at college to learn "heavier" (yet much less valuable in my opinion) languages like C, Java, Lisp and Smalltalk

I (and many others) spent many times this amount at college to learn "heavier" (yet much less valuable in my opinion) languages like C, Java, Lisp and Smalltalk. I taught myself the languages I write today and turned out fine. But for many of the people in the classes around me? This would have been an awesome value.