As a side-note, it is sad that "the industry" is always complaining that university graduates aren't better prepared for actual work, and is always pushing for

As a side-note, it is sad that "the industry" is always complaining that university graduates aren't better prepared for actual work, and is always pushing for CS programmes to be more vocational, more focused on whatever language is popular right now, because it's the good programmers with broad knowledge that push the industry forward, not the rote programmers that learned Java 15 years ago, have been doing it ever since, and can't possibly be moved from their comfort zone.