Don't forget about all the non-technical stuff. No one programs in a vacuum... The Systems Development Life Cycle: analysis, design, development, testing, sec

Don't forget about all the non-technical stuff. No one programs in a vacuum... The Systems Development Life Cycle: analysis, design, development, testing, security, deployment, project management Underlying systems theory, regardless of language: architecture, databases, frameworks, MVC, properties, methods Underlying logic, regardless of language: iteration, branching and conditions, functions and routines, variable typing and scope Anyone can go to webmonkey and learn how to write a "Hello World" program. But these basic underlying concepts that you use for the rest of your life: that's what college should be for.