[thom]

I think this point has great merit. From time to time I sit on the industrial relations board of our local university's CS department and I begged to have at least one basic software engineering best practice module as part of their new data science degree, with no luck. Many universities have Research Software Engineering departments now who can help with this stuff, but on the whole code produced by non-CS academics is dross (but honestly god bless you if you're offended by this characterisation and it doesn't apply to you).