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It feels reasonable to assume that a majority of his teaching has been for boot camp style instruction and not the traditional, 4-year formal academic route. I
by haloux 9y ago
It feels reasonable to assume that a majority of his teaching has been for boot camp style instruction and not the traditional, 4-year formal academic route.
I say this because, across the board, I know my staff would gaff at the prospect of trying to incorporate JS into anything other than an elective. Honestly, even to that, they would throw their pinkies in the air in retort of the thought that JS be taught at all in a 4-year institution. “Nay, let it be relegated to the community college.
...I know I know, ‘burn him at the stake’
- LA_Banker 9y agoWhich only further demonstrates the gap between a 4-yr Comp Sci degree and software development. Which, don't get me wrong, I'm a university snob and think software engineers should understand things all the way down to the machine level, but the snobbery in reaction to JS* being taught in 4-yr curricula (which I wouldn't doubt as a widely held reaction) is saddening. *JS wouldn't be my first choice for an actual university course on real-world coding; but I do resent the the chasm between applicable and theoretical software engineering skills... though this problem isn't confined to Comp Sci.