It really depends on the university, and then also on the lecturer. When I was self-taught, I learned the socket API in C because I needed it for what I was tr

It really depends on the university, and then also on the lecturer. When I was self-taught, I learned the socket API in C because I needed it for what I was trying to do. This was long before college, and when I got to the latter, it turned out that the person teaching us networking only knew the absolute basics of the API, and I could already run circles around them, so it was the opposite of "out of my comfort zone" (which is "in the boring zone").