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I think I have to agree about the "peak HN arrogance" bit Most things about software dev are never taught to college students. This is actually an excellent pr

I think I have to agree about the "peak HN arrogance" bit Most things about software dev are never taught to college students. This is actually an excellent project to teach students beyond programming for computers and building things for humans. Not thinking about UX is what leads to most software projects failing because we are fundamentally different from computers (do I even need to explain this?) I wish I had teachers teaching me stuff like this in my software dev classes instead of the usual stuff. I wouldn't have had to waste years trying and failing to learn this

Jensson 5y ago
> I wish I had teachers teaching me stuff like this in my software dev classes instead of the usual stuff. I think this would be a great class project with the teacher acting as a fictive user. I think it is a horrible hobby project to suggest.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
  This situation says a lot about attitudes to development in general. "It's just a hobby project, who cares?" is fine until it's useful enough to end up in production code without being production quality. Most of UNIX literally seems to have been built like this.