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bygweihir ( 88907 ) writes:
Web application developers are the lowest-skilled, least educated and least talented people in the IT space. I recently had to explain to some people with supposedly 5 years experience in that space what an HTTP header looks like, because they had no clue. Same for basically every other aspect, like cookie naming, how to make you application able to work behind a proxy (in an enterprise-environment, no less), etc. It is staggering how clueless these people are. All they seem to see is a framework, which the
bygtall ( 79522 ) writes:
Yes, there is plenty of blame to go around. Part of that blame is on CS depts. I was once associated with a CS dept. of a major midwest uni. They said they had an "honors" group of students. I got saddled with three of them for a project in Java. When I asked if they could whack together something that did X, they grumbled, moaned, whined, and produced nothing. They didn't know how to get started. Yet they all went on to "promising" careers in industry...and they were seniors.
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byLuthair ( 847766 ) writes:
CompSci isn't for training developers, its for training computer scientists. Theory is taught with the understanding that this forms the basis for development with mentoring and job experience. It sounds like you were meant to help provide the mentoring and experience, so you failed?
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