Pretty sure that's just your school.

In the article, he mentions that the students don't get to compilers till 4th year. I find that a little strange. Some elementary understanding of how a high-level programming language translates to executable code is quite useful in other courses in a standard CS curriculum. At my school, in 2nd year we write a compiler for a tiny subset of C++ to MIPS assembly, and in 4th year you write a compiler for Java with a great deal of optimization.