[douche]

I went to an Ivy League college with a notable connection to Basic, and I didn't write a line of code for my algorithms and data structures classes, or for my AI class, for that matter. I wrote a metric shit-ton of proofs, though, and I can say with 100% confidence, that that was a complete waste of time.

[colanderman]

I also wrote a metric shit-ton of proofs in my CS graduate education, and have that to thank for a greatly increased capability for logical thought over my undergraduate self.

[douche]

I really view that algorithms class as a massive, massive wasted opportunity. There are really two aspects to that kind of a subject - the theoretical underpinnings, and the practical applications. We beat the ever-living piss out of the theory, but I doubt anyone who didn't already know how to do it came out of that class knowing how you would actually code a linked list or a graph, and what the trade-offs of various implementations were. That kind of a subject would be such a rich field for a course in low level C or Rust or [insert manual-memory-management language]