> In fact i have doubts about whether > a degree course could possibly keep up with the changes in technology. > At best a degree course would only be able to teach general > principles, because the technology would have moved on by the time any > graduates actually came into the work force with teh knowledge they > gained at university.
Just looking at ColdFusion alone, we've had a new major version every year for the past 4 years. Which means that if you had a 4 year college course that included CF prepared in 2006, it would be outdated by 3 major versions by this year when the students graduated. I expect a similar kind of phenomena with other languages that have been traditionally (or recently) included in Comp-Sci courses like Java or C++. Or for any of the .NET technologies that Microsoft promote. Personally I lean more in the direction of thinking that a comp-sci degree isn't very useful in software engineering, but that a cognitive science degree would help an awful lot. The technologies we use are changing rapidly -- the brains we use to interpret those technologies are not. I got my hands on a college cog-sci textbook recently and am about half-way through it currently. I'm finding the information about memory and information processing fairly useful in making decisions about human interaction with my projects. -- s. isaac dealey :: AutLabs Creating meaningful employment for people with Autism http://www.autlabs.com ph: 817.385.0301 http://onTap.riaforge.org/blog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327599 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
