I particularly agree with this point -- "students need to be exposed to the tools to construct large-scale reliable programs..." The individual technical compo

I particularly agree with this point -- "students need to be exposed to the tools to construct large-scale reliable programs..." The individual technical component is only half the story. Real "software engineering" involves developing software which can be understood by others, expanded and scaled, which I have found to be just as hard as nitty-gritty pointer math.