[CTJUG Forum] Re: Java Developer needed

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Dear Java Mad,   I am just starting my honours degree in ComSci at UCT; no they didn't ever teach us HTML or any scripting language as part of our 3 year undergraduate degree, but yes, they expected us to use them. As for AWT and Swing, we got about a week of teaching on them in first year, and since then we have had to use them in various projects. All the other web-based stuff, well, we spent about six weeks on the theory, and then had to do a (admittedly small) project that put it all into practise.   The point of a Comsci degree does not appear to be to learn about technologies. It instead seems to be "learning how to learn". I don't think there is anyone who graduated with me last year who does not know how to program; but we would (will) all have to spend some time getting to our feet in the marketplace. Give them two months to get to grips with the things they haven't seen before, and the skills they learned at University will prove far more useful than having spent three years boning up on the super-practical stuff you are talking about.   Regards, Fritz Meissner   PS. This is not to say that these skills cannot be learned outside of university. Merely to say that there is a point to what I've spent the last three years of my life doing ;-). I said {          better in theory and research yes;          met up with a guy from university in a web development environment          and he struggle to find out how JSP work let again didnt even know ne HTML          well my side i was thought a whole lot of practical stuff like          HTML,Java, Applets, ASP ("oops")          and from ASP i could relate to JSP         and from Applets i could relate to Servlets           so what do they teach at Universities                public static void main(String[] args) {          System.out.prinln("i will geuss");        }         // probs the apps that run in a DOS window      // or do they teach AWT and SWING stuff         so please tell me that                   }  michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IMO, passing comsci at University level is not a necessary nor a sufficient condition for making one a good programmer. I can remember at Uni (I went to Natal-Durban), I used to cringe when we were assigned group work, because I knew that most of the work would be done by a few because the rest just wouldn't be up to the task. The has been borne out in recent years of working with Uni graduates. They are _definitely_ generally better than non uni but not what I would call "good". Yahoo! Autos. Looking for a sweet ride? Get pricing, reviews, & more on new and used cars. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to CTJUG-Forum@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Forum -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---