A Damning Look at the Canadian Tech Sector

Re:A Damning Look at the Canadian Tech Sector by msbarnett on Thursday September 13, 2012 @06:25PM (#4518966)

Almost any comp sci program, on either side of the border, is going to have a lot of dead-weight students who just want to put in the classroom hours and would never dream of programming on the side.

These are the kids who never really learn how to program (there aren't nearly enough classroom hours in a 4 year degree to turn you into a competent coder; building your own side projects is a necessity). These are the kids who give rise to all the complaints about Why Johnny Can't Code, and why academia doesn't prepare people for industry. These are the kids who make up the bulk of the anecdotes about people interviewing 10 candidates for a programming position and finding out that only 1 of them could actually program at even a novice level.

It doesn't really have anything to do with being in Canada.

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Re:A Damning Look at the Canadian Tech Sector by rozap on Friday September 14, 2012 @12:31PM (#4522496)

Good (well, not really) that this how it works down in the states. It's hard to gauge these things, because it's always entirely anecdotal evidence.

So yes, my frustration is not with Canadian students, but with students in general.

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