Applying to a school for CS major, and they can't even fix their website to not have a null pointer exception...

Do I really want to go here?

In the school's defense, a lot of cs departments utilize student developers to make certain web pages and these students might not have tested for your system. Still could be a fine school.

More worrying is they haven't hidden the error page with an 'oops something went wrong' and display debug information

What school?

On the bright side, they dont use (much) old software :)

Tbh, I don't think they'll teach you how to write good code at any university course. Let alone debugging.

@jsdev I have said this before but I get shot down every time.

@SecondThread yes you should so you can fix those issues, make the world a better place.

@jsdev @stalinkay I've definitely taken classes where the professors tried. I think they can kinda get good coding practices across, but debugging is so reliant on experience that until you get there it just seems like magic.

As for the original issue, most schools can't afford to pay anything resembling competitive prices. My friend is switching over to programming and took a webdev job at a university for experience. It seems like it's a miracle that the site was even running.

If you have changed your mind to join this school. First fix this website.

Even the best coders break shit every once in a while.

Same in my old school I even reported it to the head and they still haven't done anything about it

Sometimes though bugs are hard to replicate.

The teachers aren't usually the ones writing the website.