When you're a fourth semester Java student and decide to try your hand at making an android app... Only to find that it involves almost none of what you've learned so far.

You will likely master it quickly. Let us know how it goes.

All it takes is time, patience, and a lot of Google and SO!

@Trey50Daniel Doesn't everything! haha

@JSnow It really does in our profession!

@Jumpshot44 haha you look like the parent on devRant on almost every post a positive comment.

I remember seeing anonymous inner classes for the first time. this was after college. I was so confused 😕

College education on programming has changed very little in the past 20 years or so, they teach the same skills they did back then, but with newer languages. "Here's how you do a binary sort, in Java".

The vast majority of the stuff you learn at uni or college will not apply to the real world but it's the basic understanding that it gives you that help you pick up other skills in your career. It's worth doing extra curricular work on some language that you think will be useful to you in the future while studying, it will help a lot.

@Bored0ne haha just learned that in my programming course 😂

@Bored0ne My college had a very practical Software Engineering class where we used TDD and Scrum processes, as well as using Git for version control.

So true , totally different stuff. Actually demotivated me from android.

@PunkerenxD lol nice, don't be disillusioned by what I said though, college is important, I honestly wish I could go back :)

@Trey50Daniel you're so lucky, I wish college would've been that fun for me. If only I could find a job that lets me code that way :/ I mean everyone uses git, but scrum and TDD almost seem like an afterthought to most companies

@Bored0ne My professor said that alot of places might claim to use Scrum, but they might just have daily stand ups and that's the only Scrum they use.

@Trey50Daniel that's it exactly lol, my last job was 100% just standup and code