that's not really true. I very well remember a friend of mine who was building depackers for polymorphic pe packers, he went on to study security, and switched to graphics immediately. his reason "at least I can learn photoshop there"
I was simply appalled, when I noticed my co students in computer engineering had never seen a computer from the inside or knew that c was a programming language I studied. every single one of them has a ph.d now. I pretty much left.
And now that I moved to the US I can tell you each one of those who studied in a german engineering school is worth more than your average Ivy league candidate.
See, the thing is, the ones that actually do care drop out, because the system is made to find the highest common denominator. You want to get as many cs engineers out as you can from your university.
I often go on to tell people you should get interested high school students. Most of the ones in the University are already damaged. The ones that know coding at highschool age, are the later self taught wizzes
I was recently involved in hiring cs graduates for a university program, it was a horrible experience. They did all these capability assessments, grade measurement stuff, etc. In the end I got bored, and started asking them to solve problems(yes, like every half decent interviewer would do).
You'd be surprised how few people can break down a problem that would be 3 if statements into something that actually resembles a function. Sure, they can do exactly what you want them to do, but if that was it, you might as well just outsource it to some dude in india.
I was simply appalled, when I noticed my co students in computer engineering had never seen a computer from the inside or knew that c was a programming language I studied. every single one of them has a ph.d now. I pretty much left.
And now that I moved to the US I can tell you each one of those who studied in a german engineering school is worth more than your average Ivy league candidate.
See, the thing is, the ones that actually do care drop out, because the system is made to find the highest common denominator. You want to get as many cs engineers out as you can from your university.
I often go on to tell people you should get interested high school students. Most of the ones in the University are already damaged. The ones that know coding at highschool age, are the later self taught wizzes
I was recently involved in hiring cs graduates for a university program, it was a horrible experience. They did all these capability assessments, grade measurement stuff, etc. In the end I got bored, and started asking them to solve problems(yes, like every half decent interviewer would do).
You'd be surprised how few people can break down a problem that would be 3 if statements into something that actually resembles a function. Sure, they can do exactly what you want them to do, but if that was it, you might as well just outsource it to some dude in india.