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IME it is far far easier to teach a CS graduate how to use some software than to teach a user basic CS principles. Besides, at the rate of change we see in thi
by lelanthran 1y ago
IME it is far far easier to teach a CS graduate how to use some software than to teach a user basic CS principles.
Besides, at the rate of change we see in this industry, focusing on producing users instead of developers will make half the stuff outdated by the time the student graduates.
I mean, okay, lets teach Jira. Then the industry switches to assure develops.
That's the general problem with vocational training: it ages much faster than academic stuff.
- thrown-0825 1y agoWe have obviously had different experiences, but I would much rather have a high level conversation on an abstract academic topic like reinforcement learning, set theory and how it applies to sql, merkle trees, cpu architectures etc that a junior dev will be adjacent to but not necessarily need to interact with vs something like AWS IAM roles or the various gotcha's and foot guns in CSS. I agree that vocational knowledge decays faster, which is why I would prefer stricter training and certification in those areas vs something like building a compiler from scratch in the your final year of undergrad based on a textbook written by the professor 10 years ago.