Once again I'll reiterate that the teacher in question is in a school for 11 - 18 year old students, although I'd have thought this was clear from the article.
Her complaint is the way in which "IT professionals" complain about high school education, not degree level education.
In the context of the original article, this comment is therefore a little unrealistic.
>If your program graduates students that have never used version control, never committed to a single open source project, or have a difficult time picking up new languages/technologies, then maybe you're teaching them "something", but that something isn't what the world cares about.
I teach CS to the 11-14 age range for 1 hour a week, and 2.5 hours a week to 14+ students. Good luck teaching core CS theory, multiple languages and version control in that amount of time.
Her complaint is the way in which "IT professionals" complain about high school education, not degree level education.
In the context of the original article, this comment is therefore a little unrealistic. >If your program graduates students that have never used version control, never committed to a single open source project, or have a difficult time picking up new languages/technologies, then maybe you're teaching them "something", but that something isn't what the world cares about.
I teach CS to the 11-14 age range for 1 hour a week, and 2.5 hours a week to 14+ students. Good luck teaching core CS theory, multiple languages and version control in that amount of time.