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University these days is gross in certain places, especially in anything related to IT - Computer Science, Engineering, Electric Engineering, etc. There's a st
by nathanlied 10y ago
University these days is gross in certain places, especially in anything related to IT - Computer Science, Engineering, Electric Engineering, etc.
There's a stupidly heavy emphasis on group work, with the superficial justification that "it's how the real world works", discounting that, in the real world, if you're in a team but don't actually do the work, you're going to get screwed.
It seems to me, though, that teachers are mostly pushed to do that because it's being done everywhere else, and because IT students have a reputation for being antisocial, so they need to be pushed to work together, in real life, if possible.
It's an entirely wrong approach to the problem.
- jacalata 10y ago> discounting that, in the real world, if you're in a team but don't actually do the work, you're going to get screwed. Ha. I used to think that, then had two separate experiences with completely different management chains where the incompetent guy did just fine.
- the_af 10y agoWow. My experience was completely different. You mention "these days", so maybe things have changed now, but nothing in my CS degree prepared me for "agile" or "collaborative" or "Scrum" or anything. They weren't even taught at the Uni! All those things didn't come from academia but from real-world practitioners... (who, in my opinion, got a bit overzealous about their practices and thought they applied everywhere, all the time). If I had followed standard practices from University at my day job, I'd be a "cowboy coder".