[zachrose]

> "How to program" isn't something the academy understands, so they generally can't teach it

This was my (limited) experience with (introductory) formal CS.

Which is sort of amazing to me as art schools seem in broad agreement that “how to draw” can be taught, albeit in many different ways.

[paxys]

There isn't a single fine arts program in the world that will teach you how to draw lines on a piece of paper. If that isn't something you have figured out how to do in the first 18 years of your life, you probably shouldn't be pursuing it at university.