Re: (OT) Real World Skills Versus CS Skills

Not a direct answer, but relevant to your question:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/11/grads_say_courses_no_good/

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Re^2: (OT) Real World Skills Versus CS Skills by wazoox (Prior) on Jan 24, 2006 at 17:24 UTC
This seems to be the New Hot Thing : school, college, university should teach you a job. That's mere utilitarism at best, stupidity most probably. You go to university to get a culture and learn thinking. Hey, if you want to learn a job at school, be a mechanic, a plumber, or even a lawyer ! By the way, all three pay much better than computer programming or whatever job you won't learn at school anyway.	[reply]

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Re^2: (OT) Real World Skills Versus CS Skills
by wazoox (Prior) on Jan 24, 2006 at 17:24 UTC

This seems to be the New Hot Thing : school, college, university should teach you a job.

That's mere utilitarism at best, stupidity most probably. You go to university to get a culture and learn thinking. Hey, if you want to learn a job at school, be a mechanic, a plumber, or even a lawyer ! By the way, all three pay much better than computer programming or whatever job you won't learn at school anyway.

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