>>http://management.silicon.com/careers/0,39024671,39250909,00.htm
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>>I love the SlashDot take on this: "The irony of course is that if they actually get jobs in the sector, this will be how they actually work anyway."
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>That's hilarious.
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>What's the point, though? If these students really want to get jobs as programmers, don't they have to learn how to code? They are learning a trade, not just getting grades. Supposed to be, anyway.

As SlashDot points out, they're learning to be local-culture fronts for offshore programmers. When you think about it, that's not too different from what some software project managers do now - they've just skipped learning coding < g > Who needs that, when you can farm it all out to the lowest bidder? < eg >

Seriously, pretty soon the only way you'll be able to tell if a student's learned anything will be to hold invigilated exams in a Faraday cage, following full-body scans for external and implanted electronics ...