Most programming classes are bullshit. You come out with basic knowledge of practices that aren’t used in real production. They teach you how to write code, but they don’t teach you how code is written in most businesses.

Outside of actual gaming programs in colleges, new developers are generally bewildered and end up making stuff that’s hard to maintain.

We had a professor sit in with us for a few months once to get the gist of what was needed so he could form classes around game deveopment.