In short

In France, a wide majority of engineers spend the first two years of their higher education preparing for selective entrance examinations to the "Grandes écoles", that is the french graduate schools. These two years involve a lot of maths and physics, but also chemistry, philosophy, biology. It is great in the sense that it gives a wide scientific culture. But it means two years with almost no Computer Science, which leaves only 3 years to learn a lot of content before graduating with a Master's degree. As as result, I have been frustrated by the fact that some very useful things were not tought in my school. To cope with that, I started reading technical books, and taking Massive Open Online Courses.