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Software development education is screwed

Posted November 3rd, 2009 in development and tagged , , by Michael

Where are students supposed to learn about version control, bug tracking, working on teams, scheduling, estimating, debugging, usability testing, and documentation? Where do they learn to write a program longer than 20 lines?

Well, I could not agree more. Most students and new-hires do not know to work in a team for longer than a night (the last night before the deadline). And unfortunately a single, long night with energy drinks does not require source control or anything else that is required in real-world code in a real-world team…

Read the full article on JoelOnSoftware.

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