Things you wish you'd learned about programming in college?
dlsspy: Everything useful I learned about programming came either before college, after college, or when I got home from classes.I'm obviously from the pro-dropout sector, but I can tell you that the one thing I've learned about learning is that for anyone successful (by pretty much any definition) I've met, most learning has taken place outside of a classroom setting.Grab something hard, confusing, foreign, etc...  Master it.  Then move on.  Learn things that are ostensibly completely useless to your job.  You will do your job better than those who do not.I still do take classes to help with things occasionally (there was a great arduino class at the hacker dojo recently), but even in that case, I've learned more about it on my own since the class than I did during it.So here's my advice:  Don't wait for other people to teach you things.  Learn stuff on your own now.  Maintain the expectation that you only know 10% of what you need to know.And if anyone ever hears me say that I know everything worth knowing, someone please shoot me.