Hi everyone,
One of my old teacher recently contacted me because he wants to revamp that school software development program. He told me that he thought of C# and Java as programming languages, and ASP.net and PHP for web technologies. Since there are many employers out here, i'm asking:
In 2011+, which technologies will you want your rookies to know?
What would be the best for them?
Thanks.
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For academic reasons, I wouldn't focus on the latest greatest, especially since they are evolving rapidly. I could imagine any of my old professors staying up to speed with ALL of the currents.
That said, a mix would be good: Ruby with Gems, Perl, PHP, C# with .NET, Lisp, and Prolog
As well, they should probably pick something to "focus on" and for that I would highly recommend Java.
Lucas B
2010-10-26 13:43:24
why java to focus on?
Orbit
2010-10-26 13:45:02
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In school (18y and younger) I think C#/Java is not suited due to the complexity of object orientation.
PHP is fine I think and it is easy to show creative results and create some kind of interest for programming in general.
testalino
2010-10-26 13:44:21
Well, it's school in canada between high school and university called cegep. It's a 3 years program.
Alexandre Deschamps
2010-10-26 13:51:04
If high schoolers can be expected to understand calculus, fine literature, biology, physics, etc., they can understand OOP.
ceejayoz
2010-10-26 14:01:29
They teach physics in the early classes, they don't teach you the programming basics, so you can't start on the same level.
testalino
2010-10-26 14:04:33
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Its quite subjective, but developers need an understanding of concepts not languages fresh out of school. They need to understand Object Oriented Design/Programming, System architecture, Security (privileges), Web Servers, SQL, and some form of scripting.
Woot4Moo
2010-10-26 13:45:09
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PHP is a great introduction to programming, since you can learn the basics of variables, functions, control structures, etc. You don't really need to worry about classes, inheritance, typecasting, and all that. So I think its a great language to learn fundamentals.
Once they've got the fundamentals down, I would recommend teaching Java. It has very similar syntax to PHP and is free (I know cost is a huge factor in education). Java can do some really advanced stuff too. You can run it in the console, as a Windows application, even run it on Android phones!
C# is my favorite language but I'm not sure if Microsoft gives that out to schools for free. If the students learn Java, the transition to C# should be very smooth, as both languages are very close.
Colin O'Dell
2010-10-26 13:45:58