Re:Why Many Computer Science Programs Are Stagnating
by rdtsc on Saturday July 04, 2015 @10:03PM
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> and CS should dance to the tune, is ridiculous.
And as you said, there is already vocational training. Technical colleges. The question is then of course will the companies hire people who only have those degrees -- some will and some won't probably. But education geared for particular industry is already there. Maybe the feedback should happen there.
There is another important learning -- self learning. With a Github account and free time you can prove you know a lot more useful things to some companies that with a 4 year degree with an Ivy League school.
But let's take the link between academia and industry a step futher (mostly for fun):
There used to be company towns. Say a coal company or an automotive plant would come in, and set up stores, school, hospitals, everything. Even issue their own psuedo-currency which could only be used on their company stories.
So maybe there could be a GoogleLifePlex, or FacebookTown. Familes live there, have children, all services provided. Special stores, education, healthcare, book clubs. Students are tought programming using technolgies from Google or Facebook only and are groomed to be the next engineers.
And as you said, there is already vocational training. Technical colleges. The question is then of course will the companies hire people who only have those degrees -- some will and some won't probably. But education geared for particular industry is already there. Maybe the feedback should happen there.
There is another important learning -- self learning. With a Github account and free time you can prove you know a lot more useful things to some companies that with a 4 year degree with an Ivy League school.
But let's take the link between academia and industry a step futher (mostly for fun):
There used to be company towns. Say a coal company or an automotive plant would come in, and set up stores, school, hospitals, everything. Even issue their own psuedo-currency which could only be used on their company stories.
So maybe there could be a GoogleLifePlex, or FacebookTown. Familes live there, have children, all services provided. Special stores, education, healthcare, book clubs. Students are tought programming using technolgies from Google or Facebook only and are groomed to be the next engineers.