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I really like all these computer schools ads. They’re so hip, so kewl, nice music, witty slogans, really good work. Too bad that reality doesn’t back them up. As a manager in a start-up company, I see something like 10 resumes a day. I get them from all the major human-resources firms.

What can I say? Most of them are pure crap. People actually believe that if they took a course in "Sela” or “Sivan”, and can write ASP or VB they’re programmers. They believe that four months of debugging someone’s application and they’re programmers.

Well people, wake up and smell the humus.

That’s hardly enough. Yes, the market is in high demand to people who can code, who have the methodology and the knowledge, but these ‘programming’ schools don’t help. Nor do the universities.

You interview someone with a B.Sc. in computer science from a prominent university, ask them how you save a file to the disk and what do you get as an answer? “You Hash it”. Why? Because they were taught that if they don’t know the answer, just say “Hash-table” and everything would be ok.

To conclude - These ads are misleading at best. Yes, we all need programmers, but what these schools are producing is not even close.

Wadi Writer #3 (Maroon)

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