[bubblethink]

>many graduates of other schools get explicit training

From my undergrad programming class, which was a while ago, I remember that the first class had a brief intro to vim. But something like vim is an acquired taste. I never used or appreciated vim until much later when I saw others at work use it. During school, I think I used geany since that's relatively easy to use and install on ubuntu. So maybe there is some merit to spending more time on tools. However, my experience is from before everything was so easily accessible on the internet (i.e., pre github, stackoverflow etc.). So maybe these days it's not such a big deal.