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TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
What you mean with things that advance continually but also every business uses a different solution you can’t expect someone who have a perfect understanding of 6976 different possible solutions used coming out of college? What are we even teaching these kids if not every possible current and legacy software of any possible IT application and the differences between each version of each. Geez.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Token ring networks is what they spent quite a bit of time teaching us about, in 2016. Perhaps fair enough to mention it as a thing that existed but they taught this stuff to us like it was current.
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
That’s the biggest problem with learning tech from a college: developing, vetting, publishing, and adopting curriculum all take a good chunk of time. More time than it takes for new tech to arise.
It’s not hard to see going to trainings/expos/etc. on new/current/upcoming tech while working at a business is going to be a lot more useful than learning 5-20 year old tech in college.
realitista@lemm.ee 3 days ago
This is exactly why I dropped out of college for computer science when I got my first IT job. 30 years later and I haven’t regretted it yet.
ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I had a similar experience where we had an entire class for Novell Directory Services. The reason our teacher gave for keeping the class in the curriculum? We MAY run into it in the workforce.
dditty@lemm.ee 3 days ago
My org literally still uses Novell in conjunction with AD
AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m so sorry.