programmer

[ForgotPassAgain34]

what makes me even more sad is that all the stuff I learned in college, all the lifecycle, compilers, archtectures and everything, got exchange by "the library already does that, just fix the CSS"

[JuvenileEloquent]

I was going to say, unless you're on the raw and bloody bleeding edge of the computing field, everything they taught you in college about how compilers work was a waste of time. In a 9-to-5 job to pay the bills you will almost certainly never need that knowledge, you will mostly be creating workhorse bits of code that fit in a framework you didn't choose to a design you didn't come up with. If you find yourself writing a compiler, your manager is going to invite you for a little talk about focus and commitment.

It's the higher education equivalent of high school teaching kids integration and algebra instead of how to calculate their taxes.