wyrd
Senior Contributor
Last semester I ended my second year of programming courses, and I just realized that out of two years I have yet to take a programming course that remotely reflects real world applications. I don't think I realized that until I actually got pretty far into my current project, which is building an app to simulate a real world small business inventory system.
It's not to say my school sucks, on the contrary, I've had a few excellent teachers and have learned a lot from them. However, I just feel that it would've been nice if they applied the school work to the real world. I think Data Structures I (Data Structures II is 3rd year) is probably the class that resembles real world programming the closest, even more so then my VB, Advanced VB, and OOP (sadly) classes.
Does this change in the 3rd and 4th year? Or throughout college do you never really get real world training unless you actually take an internship?
It's not to say my school sucks, on the contrary, I've had a few excellent teachers and have learned a lot from them. However, I just feel that it would've been nice if they applied the school work to the real world. I think Data Structures I (Data Structures II is 3rd year) is probably the class that resembles real world programming the closest, even more so then my VB, Advanced VB, and OOP (sadly) classes.
Does this change in the 3rd and 4th year? Or throughout college do you never really get real world training unless you actually take an internship?