Almost all the time during my studies in the unversity I was complaining about courses offered there. It seemed too me that almost all of them are either too boring or too obsolete. And although in some cases that was really true, currently i think that the cirriculum was more or less the right one.
It is almost impossible for university to prepare the graduates for the current situation on the job market. It takes years for a prefessor to prepare a good course.Much more important is to give the student foundation (e.g. courses that never get obsolete, like "theory of compilers" etc.) and teach him to learn things himself. This is the approach that will make you ready for the job market and not the one that includes the course on the latest "blah-blah-blah" technology.
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Almost all the time during my studies in the unversity I was complaining about courses offered there. It seemed too me that almost all of them are either too boring or too obsolete. And although in some cases that was really true, currently i think that the cirriculum was more or less the right one.
It is almost impossible for university to prepare the graduates for the current situation on the job market. It takes years for a prefessor to prepare a good course.Much more important is to give the student foundation (e.g. courses that never get obsolete, like "theory of compilers" etc.) and teach him to learn things himself. This is the approach that will make you ready for the job market and not the one that includes the course on the latest "blah-blah-blah" technology.