I agree with robryan's point. I also wonder if teaching leaves professors too busy to keep up with the latest trends. Web _design_ might actually be a good co

I agree with robryan's point. I also wonder if teaching leaves professors too busy to keep up with the latest trends. Web _design_ might actually be a good course to be taught by a part-time professor who is also freelancing and staying current. Web _development_ is still tied to programming principles and practice. One of the point made in the article is that of the need to keep up with ever-changing technologies. Learning these technologies can often be done in your own time, and I'm not sure that university is the place for them. Last year's course on Django could be this year's course on Seaside. Developers with a good computer science background should be able to choose and learn the new technologies on their own (and they do). Same for designers - the principles of design are fairly static, while CSS tricks and trends are almost better left to Smashing Magazine and A List Apart.