[danso]

Totally agree. It's like how writing papers (to be graded by a teacher) about Shakespeare only makes you marginally a better writer, less so if you want to be a novelist or a journalist who appeals to mass audiences. Until you write real-world projects, in which the code has to be read (and edited) by real people, and which the output affects real people, all of the software engineering precepts (including the 2 hard problems in computer science) will remain abstract to you.