Universities are supposed to teach academic skills - ie, things that are believed to be true by the academy. "How to program" isn't something the academy understands, so they generally can't teach it [0]. By extension, they can't teach debugging either. People will need some sort of trade skill system to pick that stuff up.
I'm tempted by both sides of the argument, but I think the professors have a point about leaving students to sink or swim. At the end of the day a professor generally has a lot of teaching experience and most of the younger ones I've seen seem go through a phase where they think they can teach every student. Very few (none?) of the older ones. I think that is an important clue.
[0] Observe that teaching language semantics and syntax are different from learning how to program using that language. As far as I know among professors there is a strong consensus on what C is, and no consensus on how to use it to solve practical problems.
I'm tempted by both sides of the argument, but I think the professors have a point about leaving students to sink or swim. At the end of the day a professor generally has a lot of teaching experience and most of the younger ones I've seen seem go through a phase where they think they can teach every student. Very few (none?) of the older ones. I think that is an important clue.
[0] Observe that teaching language semantics and syntax are different from learning how to program using that language. As far as I know among professors there is a strong consensus on what C is, and no consensus on how to use it to solve practical problems.
EDIT Dear me, this sounds awful. Poor man. https://jakeseliger.com/2023/07/22/i-am-dying-of-squamous-ce...