Very interesting. I am from that era, teaching myself to program starting in 1983 (which I thought was quite possibly too late to catch the microcomputer gold rush ;). I was self-taught and learned from popular computer magazines and well-written, carefully selected books. But now that you mention it I remember looking at course catalogs from good schools and being shocked at how retrograde it all was. Those guys at the universities totally did not get microcomputers for years after they should have.