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Universities are not supposed to be trade schools though, right?

• flukus 10y ago
  Around here they always advertise themselves with slogans like "an education for the real world". I think they became trade schools but still haven't realized it.
• noir_lord 10y ago
  In the absence of proper trade schools they end up adapting (or been forced into) offering something that looks a lot like a trade school. I've maintained for years (since I was at college in the 2000's (UK meaning of college not US)) that programming education should be two tier, the theoretical tier at university and the practical tier using the traditional trade school model. Taking another domain there is a lot of difference between the person doing the load bearing calculations on the bricks and structures and the person laying the actual bricks. I've always fallen more into the latter camp naturally, I like to build things and I learn the applicable theory as and when I need to and you can get a long way with experience and a little theory when you can leverage the underpinning work of other people. It's interesting to note that in the UK the apprentice/master model sorta exists already if you squint in the difference between junior/senior developer when done 'correctly' anyway though at the moment due to developer demand the meaning of 'senior' has degraded down to a couple of years commercial experience apparently.