[dundee] No wonder CompSci grads are unemployed

[Andrew Clayton]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 23:13:27 +0000, Rick Moynihan wrote:

> On 2 November 2010 18:00, Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk> wrote:
> > This might ring a bell with some of you (or perhaps that should be
> > "wring able")
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/01/comp_sci_graduates_need_more_skills/
> 
> Yes, it's a common problem, where universities are far more interested
> in teaching "what industry wants", rather than the science behind it.
> The big problem being, they don't actually end up teaching much of
> anything, and the only industry they ask* are large corporations who
> benefit from competition for jobs in a market of homogeneous
> expertise, as wages are kept low.
> 
> This said, I disagree with how Java is held up as an exemplar here...
> As Java is arguably a great teaching language, it's free and
> opensource (GPL'd), it has many good tools and IDE's, and resources to

But there are reasons it never took off in the FLOSS community and
given Oracles recent activities, it's likely to stay that way.

Andrew