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I believe that the cause is the following: IT has evolved far too quickly for education to pick up and education itself is resistant to change for both good and
by voidr 4y ago
I believe that the cause is the following:
IT has evolved far too quickly for education to pick up and education itself is resistant to change for both good and bad reasons, we cannot change the system every year and expect grades to be comparable.
I do believe that we could create specializations that are not too specific yet useful, the main goal is to get rid of subjects that the student likely never encounter, I mean, we can start teaching history in Computer Science because maybe you'll program the next Age of Empires, yet we agree that the likelihood of that is so small, we can round it down to 0, my issue is that we don't check this for all the current subjects so that we don't waste people's time teaching them stuff they will never use.
> To put into perspective the absolute insanity, if it were up to hiring managers, we'd have a university trajectory "Bachelor Java backend developer", "Bachelor .NET backend developer", "Master of Microservices", etc.
You don't need "Bachelor .NET backend developer", you just need "Backend Developer", someone who has a good knowledge of one stack can easily migrate to another in the same field.
> which are obsolete within 2 years and catching up is left entirely to the individual
- MVC was invented in the 70s, still useful, it's been over 50 years and counting
- SQL also appeared around the 70s
- OOP appeared in the 50s, that's over 70 years and counting
If you know MVC, you can do MVVM.
If you can handle MySQL it's doubtful that you will have trouble with MongoDB.
I'm not implying that there were no changes and you don't need to keep yourself up to date, I'm saying that there are technologies and concepts that have longevity.