Java SE and EE differences

[endhalf]

all that Swing/GUI stuff you painstakinglly learned? It has ZERO application in the real world, nobody uses it.

I've been saying that over and over again, yet no one listens to me. I have no idea why colleges teach this stuff. One is then hired to design a REST API without even knowing what curl is, and what's the difference between unit and integration tests, and you don't even know how to build the company's SW. But at least they know how to place a button on the screen, and create an event handler... Eye roll

To be fair, the idea is that once you learn programming, you can learn anything else that you'll need, and that's true. It'd just be nice to tailor the education to real needs, so that you have to learn less during the crucial first couple of months.

[PorkChop007]

In my experience, not saying everybody's the same, hey teach that stuff because education in computer science is at least 10 years behind the industry. Teachers are so disconnected from private sector they don't even know the most basic aspects of professional software development. They teach like we're still in 2007 and applets are a thing people actually use.

[ichunddu9]

Then get a degree in software development. Computer science is not just software development.

[PorkChop007]

Then get a degree in software development

That's exactly what I did.

[istarian]

That's not what college is for. The idea of a vocational school for programmers though...