• Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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    18 hours ago

    software should be a trade, and treated like apprenticeships… some theory is needed, but it’s wild that anyone thinks 3 years of just theory is going to produce decent software engineers

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      4 hours ago

      3 years of just theory is going to produce decent software engineers

      Eh… isn’t everybody encouraged to do projects? Like isn’t every single class doing that? If so then it’s not just theory, it’s actual practice.

      Also universities and engineering schools to suggest (some make it mandatory) to have internships. That’s also practice.

      I think only CS graduates who plan to become professors are perfectly fine with “just” theory but everybody else has actual opportunities to go being that.