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This seems like quite a lot (but not all) of stuff you should be able to teach yourself; I'd say university classes should focus on more challenging/profound to

• sciolist 3y ago
  It's a 1-credit seminar, so you can take it with the more challenging/profound topics
• evmar 3y ago
  I was at UW around the time they were thinking of introducing this. I recall someone saying they'd found that there was a gap between the students who had computer experience and those that didn't -- the latter could be equally smart but lacking in the dumb stuff like how to operate git and it would end up impacting their ability to learn the profound topics. I recall that opinions like yours were the opposition to it, but it looks like it ended up happening, and I think it's a good idea. In principle a motivated person with no previous access to computers ought to be able to study computer science as well as someone who grew up with them.
• cancerhacker 3y ago
  You can learn it yourself, but when I took a similar course, it opened my eyes to knowing which tools were useful for what and how to apply them productively. (I work with people now - software engineers - that basically see any command line fu to be magic that they couldn't possibly understand.)