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Nah, I wish, you just learn how to implement quicksort in Java and stuff like that The only languages I saw during my degree were Java, C, Python, Perl, and a little bit of Prolog. And I finished my Bach last year.

We used C++ throughout most of my CS program, and I hated it at the time and never wanted to write it ever again (and haven't!), but good lord did it help me understand how computers work. I've benefitted from that perspective ever since.

I'm not sure you have to do a whole degree to get that perspective, though. Just learning C or C++ should get you a good chunk of it.

> understand how computers work

No body understands it even at electron orbitals. Your understanding will be wrong in next decade if not wrong already. Computer Arch is proprietary.

Give a try for C++17.

Zero Cost Abstractions RAII

It's a beast.

Except that you forget pretty quicly everything you've learned in CS because when you work in the real world you don't need it.