That sounds like the same problem we have now In uni (i'm a 4th year CS student) The university is taking on far too many people that have no skill, or the wrong skills to be doing computing. I.E. Taking on people that have English, History, Goeography and Drama A levels. In my opinion CS should be reserved for thos that have done things like Maths, Science, Computing, IT or some other technical qualification.
It really is a joke, for the first 6 weeks of this semster, my last semester, we were taught what HTML is. To be honest I'd expect an entrant onto the course to already have that knowledge. The constant having to lower the boundaries to accommodate for people that don't have the right skills already, or should i say the appropriate pre-requisites to do the module. Just lowers the general standard of the course.
I wouldn't be pushing it too far to say that 50% of my year if not more will get a 2.2 or less, and this is with a course that is far too easy as it is. The types of skills coming out of CS degrees now are very limited, certainly don't expect your CS grad to be able to program well, know what HTML is or even understand what a tcp/ip handshake consists of.
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That sounds like the same problem we have now In uni (i'm a 4th year CS student) The university is taking on far too many people that have no skill, or the wrong skills to be doing computing. I.E. Taking on people that have English, History, Goeography and Drama A levels. In my opinion CS should be reserved for thos that have done things like Maths, Science, Computing, IT or some other technical qualification. It really is a joke, for the first 6 weeks of this semster, my last semester, we were taught what HTML is. To be honest I'd expect an entrant onto the course to already have that knowledge. The constant having to lower the boundaries to accommodate for people that don't have the right skills already, or should i say the appropriate pre-requisites to do the module. Just lowers the general standard of the course. I wouldn't be pushing it too far to say that 50% of my year if not more will get a 2.2 or less, and this is with a course that is far too easy as it is. The types of skills coming out of CS degrees now are very limited, certainly don't expect your CS grad to be able to program well, know what HTML is or even understand what a tcp/ip handshake consists of.