Computer Science Degrees - What’s Lacking

I’ve been continuing to take classes despite working as a full-time developer. I work in the .Net world, but my heart is more in Python. Still, I wanted exposure to plenty of others and I’m currently in my second class on C++.

What I have noticed in the various courses I have taken at institutions of higher learning is that they don’t teach anything remotely close to the real world. I know this is a common claim and people cry out against the undergraduate program not preparing people for the real world. I get that. But I have always dismissed them.