[majormajor]

Schools being way behind the curve in terms of languages and frameworks is definitely not new, though I'm not a recent grad.

Some quick googling turned up that an outdated web dev class is in at least one top tier school too: https://gt-student-wiki.org/mediawiki/index.php/CS_2803_DWD the syllabus here includes jQuery and PHP both, neither of which are high on many people's "new 2022 project choices" list - "This topic list is accurate as of Spring 2022's CS 2803 DWD course, taught by Ronnie Howard."

This is not something I'd expect a school of any sort to be great at since it's very fast-moving and it's hard to have really great expertise without working on big projects that you won't necessarily have in an academic context.

EDIT: only leaving in the up to date link, not the ancient reddit discussion

[hamolton]

I went to Georgia Tech 2016-2020. CS 2803, 4803, and 8803 are all codes for special topics courses that haven't been standardized or established, so the class you linked is pretty obscure. The reddit thread you linked is 9 years old. I think the heavy emphasis on OOP in the GaTech CS intro sequence is the most outdated bit, with the worst offender being the "Objects and Design" course with lectures involving a dated and useless picture of enterprise Java design and a group project involving either programming an Android app or a JavaFX app: https://gt-student-wiki.org/mediawiki/index.php/CS_2340

[majormajor]

Whoops, I could've sworn something on there said "May 3", my mistake. Guess it's just the Wiki, not the Reddit thread, that was relevant.

GT circa 2001 had an intro OO course that was "use classes to model airlines and seats for reservations in Java" that was... dated... even for then, sounds like not a ton changed very rapidly. ;)