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> we had one CS professor who in 2007 predicted we'd all be jobless in ten years I always found that overwhelming majority of professional academic educators a
by bitcharmer 4y ago
> we had one CS professor who in 2007 predicted we'd all be jobless in ten years
I always found that overwhelming majority of professional academic educators are particularly bad in anything that has to do with the practical side of their domain. That is especially true for software engineering.
University lecturers are very detached from our field and it shows in how badly fresh grads are prepared to do any dev work. For that reason I almost always ignore their projections.
- jraph 4y agoUniversity is good for giving deep understanding of what is going on and how things work, or even training you to reach for this deep understanding. It's not good at training you to be a good developer. This part takes a long time and some of it is specific to what domain / job you end up working on. Those two parts are complementary, and this deep understanding is part of what makes you a good dev.
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoThis is not just development, this is problem of universities in general. A professor with 5 titles before and after his name is able to put an UHF oscillator on a breadboard and be surprised that it does not work, even that in theory it should.