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From: mikeh@ssd.fsi.com (Michael Hann)
Subject: Re: Producing competent CS grads (was: Theory and Practice)
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Jon Jacky quoted and addressed:
>> I work in the computer game industry, and am often surprised at
>> inability of majors in Computer Science to work until they
>> have been retrained.

Frankly, when industry starts paying for the college educations of
students, perhaps then they can expect an education narrowly confined
to solving their particular problems.  Of course they do have the
option of hiring people without college educations who are computer
whizzes -- but they don't want that because those people lack the
fundamental background that enables them to grow and adopt new
technology (generally speaking, individual mileages may vary).

I believe students shouldn't expect their educations to prepare them
to hit the ground running their first day inside the doors of the
professional world.  I don't think industry has a right to expect
. . . I don't think they WANT their college hires to be narrowly
confined to the particular methods of doing things at hand in their
company.  I think the education should provide the background to learn
quickly and to grow with new needs and problems.

Perhaps the issue is industry likes to get the inexpensive, high
energy level, unjaded college hires and wishes there were no value in
seasoning which requires significantly higher salary levels.

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