+1 on educational advocacy. Anyone have an idea what USyd, UTS et al are teaching in terms of web development and frameworks these days?
(I know during my UK MSc, java and C++ were the *only* programming options and the whole curricula was very, very Microsoft focused. It was swimming upstream trying to use php for web projects and/or ruby - hell, even a mac for that matter.). D. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Leonard <[email protected]> wrote: > This is probably wildly off-topic.... > > Where do we raise issues or suggestions for Ruby Australia in meeting it's > core aims? > > Today @dhh was tweeting that the "Rails job market still is [tight]". One > aspect affecting this is the lack of new ruby developers coming in and > learning Ruby. I feel that it should be the responsibility of Ruby > Australia to encourage Universities and High Schools to teach Ruby as > opposed to Java or PHP. I'm not sure about everyone else but my university > taught PHP as a web language (and now teaches PHP/Java from what I can > tell). I know that if I had been exposed to Ruby (or Python) at university > I would have spent much less time faffing around making crappy PHP websites > or alternatively being confused and overawed by those "enterprise" Java > monstrosities. > > Has Ruby/Rails education advocacy been discussed as one of the goals of > Ruby Australia? Should it be? > > -- Len > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/4zIirOMSUo0J. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
