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I have 3 things to tell you. 1) Consider taking another path on your college education. Web Dev curricula is awful almost everywhere, and borderline regular in
by sp4rki 16y ago
I have 3 things to tell you.
1) Consider taking another path on your college education. Web Dev curricula is awful almost everywhere, and borderline regular in the few places where it's not bad. Study business, engineering, design, computer science, etc. Universities just can't keep up with the advances in this sector right now, and the knowledge of managing a business, learning the aspects of graphic design and usability, or learning how to program in C (or Java, or Python, or whatever) will all have a bigger impact in your abilities than the curricula in a Web Dev degree. I'd also argue that for networking those degrees are better suited to put you in contact with the people you want to come in contact with.
I was hiring for the company I work for a few months ago, and to be honest, the only reason I interviewed 3 people with a "Web Dev" degree (2 where actually university certifications though) was because I had to fill a quota of people interviewed. Those 3 people totally failed the simple tests I had for them. Badly. I honestly believe this degree is actually frowned upon in the industry (don't take my word for it though, it might be a regional thing)
2) Consider that since you don't have any ideas yet, why not go on board at someone else's startup and get some experience. Hell you could even do so while you go to college.
3) The best way to come up with a great idea, is to scratch your own itch. What part of your life do you think is lacking that could be solved or improved on with a web app? Trust me, it seems hard at first, but with time you'll realize that there is lots to improve on.
- throwAway741 16y agoThanks for the reply. 1) For what it's worth, the web dev part of the course was given a complete overhaul to bring it to more of an industry standard this year, and 50% of the course is now design. I intended to study business but a massive amount of the curriculum (in this country anyway) would be of little use to me. I've had business as a subject for the last 5 years and found the syllabus to be appallingly orientated towards only management - there was literally just a chapter on entrepreneurial activity. I also considered CS, but there's a lot on the curriculum that doesn't really interest me, and since I'm certain I want to specialize in web/design I thought I'd be more interested in this course. Java is actually one of the languages on this web dev degree. As for networking, I've joined clubs and societies to network with people from these other departments. 2) I would definitely take that into consideration. Unfortunately there's little to no startup culture where I am, but I'm working on it. 3) I've heard that many times, but so far haven't found many personal itches. However I constantly get feedback from other people about their own itches and see what I could improve on there.