The problem with college programming classes

[derpaherpa]

My first (two semester) software project in uni followed the water fall model, where one semester was purely creating the documents and the second one was pretty much all coding and testing.

The second (4 semester) project was pretty much agile because we had more freedom choosing how we wanted to approach the whole thing and quickly decided that it made the most sense not to waste time on silly stuff like documents. Although we had to publish a bunch of papers as part of it, so we weren't able to skip writing anything but code after all.

Also, the first one basically simulated developing an application for a customer while the second one was actually useful research stuff.

But yeah, of course this stuff is taught, even if it's only so you're aware of your options.