[Gllug] VACANCY: Junior Systems Support

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On 1 Sep 2009, Hari Sekhon told this:

> - Tethys wrote:
>> Interesting. I've found quite the opposite. Academia has thrown away
>> many of its principles in the effort to chase skills that it thinks
>> businesses want. That's why they're churning out endless streams of
>> Java programmers that lack a basic grounding in the underlying subject
>> and who will be screwed when Java's star fades and they need to switch
>> to something else.
>>   
> Yes, think about this for a minute:
>
> They are churning out endless streams of Java programmers... How many 
> Java jobs are there out there?

Not so many anymore. This is why universities *shouldn't* track the real
world closely: if they teach specific languages that are needed *now*,
the graduate will be screwed in a few years when fashions shift.

Instead they should try to impart the fundamentals of the discipline,
things that are needed *no matter what language you are using*, and
introduce you to a lot of varied languages so you get used to the
variety and to learning new ones.

> Are they teaching Java to a professionally competitive standard?

i.e., awful? Probably.
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