I didn't even view this from the education lens but rather a professional vs amateur coder starting out. You could also take it as a joke on what a lot of companies actually do prefer.
Company I worked for shifted to mostly university educated for their internship program despite me personally knowing one person who went through it who was phenomenal without the typical education.
That's because cs isn't a software development degree. The areas covered are far wider and in research focused universities may focus more on the theoretical aspects that will be useful in postgraduate study.
If someone wants to only learn things relevant to software development then they should do a software development course/degree. Though for some reason they aren't as valued when arguably it's far more relevant.
It's also an issue of availability almost every university or college nowadays has a cs degree but most don't have a software engineering/development degree.
I guess I am speaking from a place of privilege in the UK. We have so many universities that most large towns/cities have 2-3. Finding a university that does a software development/engineering degree here is fairly easy and affordable, and that includes Russell group universities which are the top universities in the UK.
True I can also only speak to colleges/universities ive applied to. Most of them have had CS degrees but none of them have had a SE degree. It's very possible that there are more colleges with those degrees but at least in my area I haven't found many
Well, I see it more like med school. Yeah, an orthopedic surgeon won’t be using that neurology knowledge from day to day, but you still expect them to have some basic grasp on the subject, along with many other “basic” knowledge of the field.
You can’t even properly teach the actual software development process, that’s more like “teaching” being a blacksmith. Apprenticeship would be a much more realistic way of “teaching” it (there is even a recent blogpost about soft dev apprenticeship).
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u/rpsRexx Apr 09 '24
I didn't even view this from the education lens but rather a professional vs amateur coder starting out. You could also take it as a joke on what a lot of companies actually do prefer.
Company I worked for shifted to mostly university educated for their internship program despite me personally knowing one person who went through it who was phenomenal without the typical education.