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This feels like biblical Pharisees putting ritual cleanliness above practical concerns. The professors see themselves as pursuing higher intellectual goals, but
by Meekro 1y ago
This feels like biblical Pharisees putting ritual cleanliness above practical concerns. The professors see themselves as pursuing higher intellectual goals, but the reality is most of their students want programming jobs, and need to be taught skills that will be essential to those jobs (like using git).
- Discordian93 1y agoThese skills are also useful for reproducible computational research
- aleph_minus_one 1y agoThe purpose of universities is to prepare the student for academic research. If you really want a tertiary education that is more focused on practical considerations, at least in Germany there exist Fachhochschulen. When you attend a university, but you at least want to have the option to get a programming job if you realize that academic research is not for you (which is in my opinion a very good idea considering the job prospect uncertainty in academia), you will of course additionally invest an insane amount of your free time (outside of your academic studies) to learn the necessary skills for this. If you don't do this, don't complain.
- port11 11mo agoThis is, again, GP's criticism of purity for its own sake. I've had to interview people for whom academia didn't work, and they were simply ignorant in terms of real-world skills. Writing a Bash script shouldn't be an hobby pursuit, I'm sure a Master's in CS can spare 6 credits (one course, one semester) to teach Git, scripting, encoding, linting, etc. Academia-grade code can be much better if you look past the purity of their pursuits.