Anyway, you can take heart in the fact that if your goal is just to learn programming, a computer science department at an IIT is probably the last place you want to be. I'm only half joking. The curriculum is tilted heavily towards theory, reflecting the attitudes of the professors who obviously come from an academic background (most of them have probably never programmed professionally).

There was only one course where anyone is actually going to even try to teach you programming, but that is actually a pretty basic programming course in the first semester. Everything else you are supposed to learn on your own, through "assimilation". There are several courses in your third year that require significant programming skills, so if you haven't learnt those skills on your own outside the classroom by that time, you're kind of fucked.

Also even if the subject taught at IIT is not worth it it opens a lot more doors than what my college can ever do. In things like research.