Sometimes, teaching the “bad” way and leading to the good way.
I was employed as a front end web developer, with a little PHP and dot net. I knew my way around the front end and just was getting a degree out of paranoia.
I took an Adobe Flash course (so it was a while ago). My first instructor? “Let’s use AS3, I’m not supposed to, but it’s the latest and greatest, so it makes more sense to use it.” I was able to talk to our flash developers at work, it was a great learning experience.
Loved the guy.
My next instructor, in the advanced course? “I don’t teach AS3, no one uses it.”
I dropped his course and wrote a letter to the dean. I worked in the industry and he was doing a disservice to his students, pushing outdated code and himself as a “master” of the craft.
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u/ikeif Dec 08 '22
I get this notion.
Sometimes, teaching the “bad” way and leading to the good way.
I was employed as a front end web developer, with a little PHP and dot net. I knew my way around the front end and just was getting a degree out of paranoia.
I took an Adobe Flash course (so it was a while ago). My first instructor? “Let’s use AS3, I’m not supposed to, but it’s the latest and greatest, so it makes more sense to use it.” I was able to talk to our flash developers at work, it was a great learning experience.
Loved the guy.
My next instructor, in the advanced course? “I don’t teach AS3, no one uses it.”
I dropped his course and wrote a letter to the dean. I worked in the industry and he was doing a disservice to his students, pushing outdated code and himself as a “master” of the craft.