@inthehands And to be clear, I don't think my education was bad or useless. That's just what would fit in a single post.
A detailed understanding of the fundamentals of computing helps me in lots of intangible ways.
And even for that era, my program was atypical. We were working in ANSI C while friends at other schools were using Java. My job in software engineering is akin to a skilled trade, and my computer science degree was organized to prepare me to do graduate research in computing.