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It surprises me that colleges teach web frameworks.

• ratww 4y ago
  Me too. But what really suprises me is that today that's virtually the only thing some of them are teaching. It's Java or Python for programming basics (arithmetics, ifs, print), then straight into frameworks.
  • dgb23 4y ago
    That's really unfortunate. I think education is the best place to teach these things bottom up. Especially considering that you understand a framework way better after creating one yourself. There are not that many essential parts in a web framework anyways, it's the plumbing, the tooling and the polish around them that makes them productive.
    • ratww 4y ago
      Exactly. IMO you're a 100x better developer when you at least tried to create something you use from scratch. I find however this will become harder and harder with newbies being constantly bombarded online with messages stating that creating anything from scratch is a futile exercise, together with companies influencing college curriculums.
• havblue 4y ago
  I suppose it's job security for a lot of us that colleges are producing developers who don't know what a string is.