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Re:How to create more qualified candidates for tech jobs by Whoaa512 on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @03:41AM (#6288536)
Immersive Software Apprenticeship.

Programs similar to Hack Reactor and Flat Iron are trying to solve this problem as we speak.

http://hackreactor.com/

http://flatironschool.com/

Re:How to create more qualified candidates for tech jobs by mooreds on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @05:07PM (#6286286)
Agreed. We had a summer intern who is a CS major. There were a multitude of things that he had little to no experience in that are fundamental pieces of software engineering (things like version control, deployment environments, bug tracking, testing, DRY, etc). He was a smart guy so he picked things up, but would be great to have an academic grounding for this. I saw something similar at the grad level: http://ecee.colorado.edu/~swengctf/ but haven't heard of any undergrad programs.
Re:How to create more qualified candidates for tech jobs by United857 on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @05:20PM (#6286371)
Stanford's step towards addressing this:

http://startup.stanford.edu/