Having recruited at 4 universities (Rensselaer, Purdue, Ohio State, University of Washington) - students that write code for money for incubators associated with their university tend to learn the art of debugging really well because the incubation companies want people to solve problems and do it in fewer hours and invest some time to teach them to use good debugging techniques. Depending on the sophistication of the particular incubator company they might invest in mentoring patterns and performance to help the student be more productive for them but often debugging is the first investment.
Left to the traditional cs classes the students don't seem to walk away with the same set of skills that help them narrow a problem, manipulate the data while the program/service/page/site/component is running andreally understand the implications of what they've written vs. what they needed to write to make it right.
I went to Rensselaer and I 'learned on my own' because I was paid flat rate for some projects and I wanted to minimize my own time spent on programming - and it was further enforced by working as an intern @Microsoft in 1994 where I got to see how useful an Integrated Dev Environment really was.
