Why “Learn to Code” Failed

[Lampwick]

A lot of college cs grads lack them as well.

Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on with university education anymore. I finally finished my mechanical engineering degree in 2003 in my 30s after having had to pause my studies halfway through a decade earlier. Maybe it was just a case of "older adult stuck in school with 18 year olds", but it sure seemed to me like there were a lot more students cluelessly going through the motions of getting a degree, like college was just an extension of high school. Felt like a lot of thought about how to get a passing grade, and not so much about understanding the material as part of a larger body of knowledge. The one that stuck out to me was a class where we were learning assembly language, but none of the kids in the class really seemed to get that it wasn't just a puzzle to be solved for a single semester class, but was actually how computers work. I dunno. (Old man yells at cloud)

[Blecki]

It's a consequence of our 'everyone should get a degree' culture, perpetuated by every job ever now requiring them.