On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Marius Milcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HCI, > Databases, Dynamic Programming, (X)HTML, CSS, Usability, Design > Methodologies etc. and, as an entry requirement, that this knowledge come > from a relevant computing degree. > > M >
I know that is how universities typically work, and it's silly to expect the web sections of universities to work any other way. So consider this with a grain of salt, as an unrelated rant. But it strikes me as foolish to assume that those skills could *only* come from a computing degree, and at least twice as foolish to assume that they're *likely* to have come from a computing degree. Do CS degrees really include design and usability? Do any of them actually teach database fundamentals anymore, or do they just teach "oracle"? Do any teach design, or do they just teach "illustrator and photoshop", do they teach dynamic programming, or do they teach "Java" or "c#"? Do you know of any undergraduate university course whose curriculum actually matches up to the demands that web professionals face in the real world? (if you do I'd like to know about it!), or are most of them really just lopsided short sighted, vendor sponsored courses, as I've seen in the piles of complaints and evidence? If I were hiring, or deciding who is qualified to enter post graduate studies, the presence of a degree would be the last thing I would check. Actual measurable competency is far more important, and a degree hardly guarantees that. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
