But many don't do this. Only true artisans due. I did not have this opportunity in college to be taught other way. I stayed a language major. In hindsight,

But many don't do this. Only true artisans due. I did not have this opportunity in college to be taught other way. I stayed a language major. In hindsight, I would have changed majors, at least double-majored with this kind of curriculum and a few years later with my flirting with Linux. It would have shifted my curiosity in the right direction. I can do basic Python and Perl programming (not to mention the terrible days of PHP and ColdFusion days in my student jobs), but even as an IT guy I routinely feel I never know enough. And I am the only IT guy I know, not to program but just to understand, by the Sysinternals Windows Internals 900-pager to even try to get there. And that is just for Windows, which is not even worth it IMHO.