> What a university can provide is direction: an explicit decision about the order concepts are learned, and the perspective each concept is approached from. A

> What a university can provide is direction: an explicit decision about the order concepts are learned, and the perspective each concept is approached from. Also just touching on "these things exist", converting unknown unknowns into known unknowns. That's the single biggest thing I got from my degree (having already been programming for years before), that nowadays I'm occasionally reminded of in a relevant context and can now dig deeper into.