Both are just 1 of many examples of why I found college, for computer programming, to be nearly a …
… Both are just 1 of many examples of why I found college, for computer programming, to be nearly a complete waste of time. I’m not saying I didn’t learn anything but I learned way less than I did on my own and most of what they taught was horribly outdated and didn’t take into account how you’d actually be writing code in the real world. It’s like the teachers that said “you won’t be walking around with a calculator in your pocket always”. That’s not me saying math isn’t important, it is, but it’s the same flawed argument that makes you memorize syntax as if your IDE won’t auto-complete the boilerplate for you or pretends you don’t have all of the internet at your fingerprints to look up things. It would have been much better for the professors to spend their time teaching how best to manage a project or take business requirements and turn them a spec or pseudo code. That’s a skill I actually use every day and it hasn’t changed much whereas the language I use and how I write code has changed quite a bit.
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