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The main reason for this is because self-taught programmers FOCUS ON ONE LANGUAGE. I realized that I went through all the courses I needed to learn from university in different programming languages for some strange reason, and that just left me all over the place as a developer.

It is an easy fix, teach only one language for the 6 core areas of programming, namely:

1) Intro to programming (variables, loops, conditions etc. up to functions) 2) Complexity management, usually OOP 3) Building a GUI (it is not trivial and needs to be a course on its own) 4) Connecting to a database (also not trivial) 5) Data Structures and Algorithms 6) Compilers and programming languages (basically popping the hood of programming)

In school, after learning OOP in Java we switched to web dev and learned javascript and php. We completely abandoned learning GUI and DB for java.

Algorithms was taught by a visiting lecturer in C++ and after mid-sem we switched to Data Structures in java??

The universities are doing a fine job, but please just stick to one programming language for these core areas and everything will be great.

I came to this conclusion before AI took over. It will be interesting to see how AI changes the Computer Science curriculum in the years to come.