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As the guy who formulated SOLID principles, co-created the Agile manifesto, and formulated the red-green-refactor process of doing TDD, I'd say that we should listen to what he has to say.

Why do we keep training programmers in university to bang out low-level unstructured code? We know better and some schools like MIT with SICP have been following a different approach, but why is this not more widespread?

Java is a horrible language to teach to new developers because it has traps all over the place that are best avoided. If a course started with DDD for a month before the first line of code is written, then perhaps Java would be OK.

I'd still like to see all developers learn some machine coding and assembler but that should be something that you leave to 2nd or 3rd year after you have a grounding in how to structure programs.