That's fine, if employers are prepared to accept they'll be hiring people with little to no actual technical skills. The problem is that universities aren't focusing on proper "computer science" and are already providing a great deal of vocational training in order to make people more employable. The additional problem from our perspective is that universities aren't talking enough about Ruby, Python and Open Source and the community and are therefore "dooming" most students to be .NET or Java wage-slaves to some faceless corporation.... or something.
I don't think web development requires much knowledge of algorithms in any case. I can't think of the last time I sat down at thought Big O notation when I was creating a website. It used to concern me with embedded development but not with webdev. Advocacy is important here and I think this community should be a part of it: *The founding purpose of Ruby Australia is to further the use and adoption > of the Ruby programming language in Australia, and to support and encourage > a vibrant community around the language and related technologies.* -- Len On Friday, April 27, 2012 8:44:13 PM UTC+10, Mark Wotton wrote: > > I'm going to be contrary here and suggest the opposite: whenever > university courses try to be "industry-relevant", they're always laughably > behind. I would far prefer to get out of uni with a reasonable > understanding of algorithms, operating systems and fundamentals of > programming languages than any amount of industry-specific training. > > Learning Ruby is just not that hard. > > mark > > -- 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/-/nKd3ZdlADvIJ. 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.
