How about teaching a little version control? A passing mention of git in 4 years of college. The entire industry uses some form of version control, and all we get is a passing mention of it?

Ouch.
Version control was one of the first things I picked up being a self taught developer.
Its importance couldn't of been stressed enough to me by the job market, tech recruiters and other fellow devs directly telling me.

Wonder why it's left out??

@Vip3rDev Couldn't begin to guess

Because bureaucracy within schools is slow as fuck, they will teach you fundamentals, but for the shit that's actually important, you'll need to do that yourself.

So I went to a State University, and we all know that cost per minute at universities is the highest when compared to other education institutions (vocational school, community college). So do I really want the professors to spend precious minutes on something you can learn by yourself freely online?

And because they don't teach it you get those group projects at University where people refuse to use git and want to share everything with Dropbox... Kill me now.

@pez-dispenser oh God.. code through dropbox?? 😣😖

@Vip3rDev dark days my friend

@swchang10 That applies to pretty much everything, though. Hell, I'd say 90% of what I know and use on my job was something I learned freely and online...why am I 50k in debt? 😂

This sounds pretty typical - universities/colleges are in the stone age teach best practices from 10 years ago.. or lack there of.

Version control is a genuis invention to undo whatever code you are inevitably going to break. Should be the first lesson in any course and mandatory throughout.