Actually I do. Despite being in management I make sure that I keep my skills current. Over the past couple of years I've done commercial development in C, C++, perl, Python, SQL... including spending much of the last year doing Python development. So please don't imagine I'm some old fart who's never moved on from VAX/VMS.
I talk to lots of recent CS graduates, and the majority of them don't come out with any useful skills beyond web-design. That's why so many are unemployed or on "do you want fries with that" wages.
Recent graduates might graduate with knowledge of current tools, but that doesn't make them able to learn faster. It's just that they don't have to learn at all.
My experience is that recent graduates don't have knowledge of the current tools. Most of the "IT" graduates churned out in the UK are taught PHP and Java and that's about it. The laws of supply and demand mean that yoiu can get programmers in those languages for not much more than you could offshore the work.
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Actually I do. Despite being in management I make sure that I keep my skills current. Over the past couple of years I've done commercial development in C, C++, perl, Python, SQL... including spending much of the last year doing Python development. So please don't imagine I'm some old fart who's never moved on from VAX/VMS. I talk to lots of recent CS graduates, and the majority of them don't come out with any useful skills beyond web-design. That's why so many are unemployed or on "do you want fries with that" wages.
Recent graduates might graduate with knowledge of current tools, but that doesn't make them able to learn faster. It's just that they don't have to learn at all.
My experience is that recent graduates don't have knowledge of the current tools. Most of the "IT" graduates churned out in the UK are taught PHP and Java and that's about it. The laws of supply and demand mean that yoiu can get programmers in those languages for not much more than you could offshore the work.
Pardon me sir, I believe your fly is ringing.
No. I'm just pleased to see you...