Finding out that your professor at the esteemed ivy league you attend has no real world experience in CS outside of the CS graduate program at said university...

#teachyourself

I feel like it's very common for some people to just never leave academia..

Why is it so fucking hard for people to grasp the concept that just like school isn't for everyone, being self taught isn't for everyone.

Furthermore, stop giving a fuck how a person learned and just care about what they know and how well of a job they do.

@Stuxnet I suppose that teacher makes up for his non existent practical knowledge with lots of studies about how things are handled for real in his field. If not, then the students will miss out on valuable advice that prepares them for the job market. Not every one can stay in academya forever.

@p100sch that has nothing to do with my comment.

It honestly can go both ways. I’d much rather have a teacher that’s good at teaching than one who has 20 years of experience in the field but can’t teach worth shit which seems to be the case a lot of the time (at least at my school).

However, one of the biggest flaws of the education system (at least in the US) is that they only teach programming in the aspect of the syntax and how to use it in the console but never on real world applications and stepping outside of the standard libraries and using frameworks like React, asp.net Core, making a GUI by connecting another language, and so forth.

Ridiculous learning C++ and then having to take a Java course and starting over at the beginning learning about variables, functions, aspects of OOP all over again.

I was stuck for years after community college not understanding how to use C++ outside of simple console applications because the beginner C++ course went over the basics up to templates and then intermediate went over linked lists and resolving bugs, and things similar rather than applying the knowledge learned in the first course to real world stuff.

Not until I got my internship did I finally understand.

Well, this is common problem when learning abstract stuff in abstract way. It's not that this knowledge is useless, you need the context to benefit from it.

Problem with academics is that they are overly idealistic and disregard serious problems like dealing with stupid people. So common in business...