Another unfortunate thing in this context is that coursework is almost always greenfield development of small projects. Coming up to speed on a large existing

Another unfortunate thing in this context is that coursework is almost always greenfield development of small projects. Coming up to speed on a large existing code base of inconsistent quality and style is another enormously important job skill, as is writing code that can be maintained by the person who has to come up to speed on your code a year later, but you'll never get those skills from writing small precisely-specified programs from scratch.