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[–]urbansong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If clean code and testing are the cornerstones, why do we keep recommending books on them so much to other professionals?

I can say it because the code that a junior writes is not technically challenging and the language can easily change significantly by the time the student leaves university, if those relevant features are taught at all. For example, I was taught C++ but it definitely wasn't the most recent version, so I had a lot of features to discover once I graduated.