Ask HN: A Web Programming Curriculum that Would Actually Provide Value

[keni]

I have a friend who is a program chair for a web development academic program at a large community college. I have told him that most of the students I see leaving their program are just not prepared and have to bootstrap a lot of knowledge on their own, making it hard for them to get a job. In the program today they tend to focus so much on skills like HTML and FrontPage/dreamweaver that a student never truly has the opportunity to see if web development is what they want to do or gain the skills to actually help their career.

I have been asked to be one of the advisors and come up with 10 classes that would help better prepare a student for work in the industry. I know most of what I learned was self-taught and on my own time. I have followed HN for a long time and use it as a resource to keep up with what is coming and what I need to explore.

I was hoping I could solicit some feedback from the HN community about what a community college web development program could offer that would actually help prepare a student.