back when I was CS at JHU; there were some very strange divides in how some professors viewed "programming vs. CS". (that I only got a taste of as an undergrad; the real opinions didn't come out until I was talking to the professors after my tenure as a student) What I would call useful "life skills" (debugging, good code style, VCS, various development workflows), they called "a waste of time getting in the way of their study of PURE CS(tm)". Certain professors foster some of these skills, certain professors pretend none of them exist at all. So it's a grab bag of what skills you'll end up graduating with, aside from those you take the classes for. (which, credit where its due, with the giant qualifier of "within higher end CS", was never terrible.)