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That focus comes largely from the students. They want/need a job asap. Unlike a college freshman who has 4+ years to learn, and has set aside that space in their lives, it isn't uncommon for a student leaving these programs to be down to their last 30-60 days of savings after this program and need a job immediately.

Anything you teach them that is simply theoretical, you have to fight them to get them interested in. This isn't to say I didn't do it. I taught students basic C, binary conversion, arduino, basic electronics, game programming, noSQL databases, computer science, etc... in various classes. But there was always a group of students who wanted nothing outside of what they would need on the job, immediately.