To expand about university: it's my personal experience so ymmv Almost nothing in my curricula mapped to anything I worked afterward, and I am very glad of tha

To expand about university: it's my personal experience so ymmv Almost nothing in my curricula mapped to anything I worked afterward, and I am very glad of that. They forced me to learn how to think, how to solve problem, and gave me a set of analytical tools to understand the software world. True, I had to figure out java and javascript and aLl the other stuff on the gritty nitty details of programming myself, but I learned a lot faster than people attending work skill universities how to not work by coincidence and how to solve the real problem of software development of which coding is actually the very minor part. I'm amazed when I see people lost in coding while that is actually the less relevant part of the job.