If you had to teach professional development to students that just graduated school, what would be the topics?

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The idea is to give them more chances to be efficient in a professional environment.

Most students are good with theory, most of them are smart, but they have to learn how to solve common technical problems.

They will be better programmers as they practice, but maybe we can help them with some introduction training.

Which topics you would select for a two weeks full time training?

It's an open question, I don't want to suggest things that will reduce the answers to a particular field.

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