Colleges aren't teaching enough practical applications of why we devs do what we do. Get students engaged with small business! Get them to think about how they apply what they learn to the real world!! We need creative new ideas from developers that think outside the damn book!

I agree. Colleges would be doing students and businesses a great service bridging the divide.

devRant seems uniquely positioned to help facilitate students jump from the academic world to the business world.

Top coder's world-wide post real business challenges, solutions and best practices on a daily basis. This is gold to students entering the working world. They will know what to expect as they embark on their career which will enable them to 'hit the ground running'.

@jumpshot - I completely agree. When I was in school nothing like this existed. We had dream-in-code.net and stack overflow. That's it. Nothing "real world oriented"