Well at Carnegie Mellon they did. That's why I wanna know how some punk got his Caltech paper stamped without even learning C.

He did seem sad that SpaceX wouldn't touch him. Apparently you need more than friends at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an ability to talk endlessly about Haskell to send shit to Mars. So that's good news at least.

I'm a mathematician, not CompSci (but I taught CS students and they had to also implement some things in C on their second semester.) So, no operating systems. Tough stuff was taken for granted when I was in the University.

There seems to be two schools of thought when it comes to teaching numerics. You either teach how to effectively implement the algorithms or you teach how to effectively select and apply the algorithms. It seems to be tied to if the computational science department comes out of the Computer or Math department.

I'm personally of the opinion that knowing how to select and apply the right algorithm is far more important to learn for undergraduates. Implementing numerical algorithms correctly and efficiently is serious high level PhD territory, and if you're not going to learn how to do it right you're much better off not doing it at all and leaving it to the experts.

If you've never implemented a bootloader and some trampolines or interrupt handlers in assembler, you didn't really learn about operating systems.

Only after we built the CPU pipeline using nand gates.