It does seem crazy, but anecdotally, it's pretty common. The number of people in my CS degree that couldn't program - at all - was astounding. I did a final ye

It does seem crazy, but anecdotally, it's pretty common. The number of people in my CS degree that couldn't program - at all - was astounding. I did a final year subject on databases, and ended up in an end of semester group project with two students that didn't know the difference between a table, and a database.