It's called a Computer Engineering degree, sometimes called EECS (as at MIT). I did it and you can too.
And by your own admission you didn't learn all the stack elements I listed above. And that was not in any way, shape, form, or fashion an exhaustive list!
Sure, if you finish a four year degree in CS/EE/EECS you learn a lot of stuff... and if you spend a big chunk of that four years on the really low level stuff, you have to tradeoff time spent on higher levels of the stack. You can only pour so much water in a 1 gallon bucket.
And even then, you only get the fundamentals are a certain level of depth. At some point, one has to ask "how important is it that I be able to go out, buy an 8088 chip, a memory controller chip, a floppy drive controller chip, etc., solder a motherboard together, code an OS in assembly, write my own text editor, etc, etc., etc."
Don't get me wrong. I'm not against teaching the fundamentals, and I'm not even sure I agree with MIT's decision on this. But I will say I can understand it and cede that it has some merit.
And all of that said, I'll go back to what I said earlier.. to me, the important thing is to continue learning even after college, including going back to fundamentals like building circuits from individual transistors and what-not. That stuff has value, you there's no reason to think you can't be productive even without that.
I mean, if you think about it, every field eventually segments into layers where certain practitioners treat some things as a black box. Does an engineer building a car also need to be a metallurgist or materials scientist? No, he/she just grabs a book, and looks up the parameters for the correct material for the application at hand. Etc.
And by your own admission you didn't learn all the stack elements I listed above. And that was not in any way, shape, form, or fashion an exhaustive list!
Sure, if you finish a four year degree in CS/EE/EECS you learn a lot of stuff... and if you spend a big chunk of that four years on the really low level stuff, you have to tradeoff time spent on higher levels of the stack. You can only pour so much water in a 1 gallon bucket.
And even then, you only get the fundamentals are a certain level of depth. At some point, one has to ask "how important is it that I be able to go out, buy an 8088 chip, a memory controller chip, a floppy drive controller chip, etc., solder a motherboard together, code an OS in assembly, write my own text editor, etc, etc., etc."
Don't get me wrong. I'm not against teaching the fundamentals, and I'm not even sure I agree with MIT's decision on this. But I will say I can understand it and cede that it has some merit.
And all of that said, I'll go back to what I said earlier.. to me, the important thing is to continue learning even after college, including going back to fundamentals like building circuits from individual transistors and what-not. That stuff has value, you there's no reason to think you can't be productive even without that.
I mean, if you think about it, every field eventually segments into layers where certain practitioners treat some things as a black box. Does an engineer building a car also need to be a metallurgist or materials scientist? No, he/she just grabs a book, and looks up the parameters for the correct material for the application at hand. Etc.