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In Portugal my younger brother was on the second year of software engineering at a university, I wanted to see his progress and how he programmed but was disapp
by nunobrito 4y ago
In Portugal my younger brother was on the second year of software engineering at a university, I wanted to see his progress and how he programmed but was disappointed.
He did not know how to program at all.
The teachers were lazy and repeated the same exams and activities year after year. Too many students took the easy path and either copied the answers from previous years or would google some snippets.
Worst: teachers didn't care if the code would compile, they would grade the effort.
In the end students would pass the year with positive grades (public university) and my brother would graduate next year without knowing how to write code on his own.
I hope that not too many students follow that lazy path.
- native_samples 4y agoSadly that's common around the world. My university in the UK, supposedly an "elite" one, had the exact same problem.
- raxxorraxor 4y agoI didn't learn programming at university at all. We had some modules for that but it remained entirely theoretical throughout the course. I did learn it autonomously by trial and error before which made these modules quite trivial most of the time. If you don't learn it yourself you won't get far. But with the density of tests today I understand that students focus elsewhere. Computer Science is not just programming, but nearly everyone expects you that you can do it (in any environment for that matter).