Re:Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month
by tdfx on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @11:52PM
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> Educational institutions that do not even bother to spend such a small amount of time
I can confirm that there are theory-focused professors at a particular state university that don't understand version control or have any experience with it. It's not that they don't see any value in it, they just don't have any experience with it to pass on to students.
Re:Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month
by JamesBarney on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @01:03AM
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Or any software engineering experience for that matter.
One professor was blown away when I showed him you could change change the query parameters of his custom submittance application to see other student's submitted work.
Re:Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month
by IdiocyInAction on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @07:35AM
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> If it is so easy and quick to teach people how to use git, then why aren't colleges doing it!??!
Some of them actually do.
You are thinking about this wrong.
If it is so easy and quick to teach people how to use git, then why aren't colleges doing it!?!?
Learning how to use common software engineer tools is a low effort, high reward situation. All they have to do is spend a day on it, and they have now made their students significantly more valuable.
Educational institutions that do not even bother to spend such a small amount of time, in order to make their students much more valuable, are making a huge mistake.