Academia charges a tax on society to credential people for white collar jobs and hates, hates, hates when that is said out loud.
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"We're not *pah* mere vocational training." This is true; that would require universities actually successfully teach meaningful skills.
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What universities actually do is certify for some weighted combination of IQ, follow-through, and cultural acclimatization in middle class.
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If programming had been discovered before monasteries absolutely no one would design a CS curriculum to resemble a monastery.
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I am not using "monastery" as a crypto-criticism. I love monasteries. I would not recommend them to everyone at age 18 by default.
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Back to universities: I went to a really good (and really expensive) university. It added very little of "competent professional developer."
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Could I have reversed a linked list with my eyes close six weeks after graduation? Yes. Had never used source control or a database.
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Just like universities profess to not certify for class membership, and do, I think that a lot of job interviews certify for CS curriculum.
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Reversing a linked list, for example: not a hard problem, in the same way as "Describe intersectionality" is not a hard problem.
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It does, however, have huge shibboleth value. The shibboleth value increases as industry gets further from using pointer-based languages!
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This creates a perverse incentive for gatekeepers to mutually agree on increasingly useless trivia so they can keep the handshake secret.
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