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Why don't universities just offer courses where you graduate as senior dev?
Are they stupid?
This exists, but it isn't easy to gather expert levels of programming experience willing to work for a teacher's salary. So your mileage may vary.
So I recently started contributing a little to FOSS projects and and in just a few months, I ended up learning more than I learned in over a year of "industry experience".
The variance is high in this one.
Absolutely.