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by orlp 122 days ago
In university? No, absolutely not straight away.

The point of a CS degree is to know the fundamentals of computing, not the latest best practices in programming that abstract the fundamentals.

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My university also taught best practices alongside that, everytime. I am very grateful for that.
Absolutely the wrong take. You can teach CS with just pencil and paper, but that doesn’t advance the technology, it might only benefit academia in a narrow sense. CS students should be actively engineering software in addition to doing science.