Eric Brechner
ABSTRACT
There has always been a gap between what college graduates in any field are taught and what they need to know to work in industry. However, today the gap in computer science has grown into a chasm. Current college hires who join Microsoft development teams only know a small fraction of their jobs and cannot be trusted to write new code until they have received months of in-depth training. The cause of this growing gap is a fundamental shift in the software industry, which now demands higher quality and greater attention to customer needs. This paper presents five new courses to add to computer science curriculums to help close this gap.
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Index Terms
- Things they would not teach me of in college: what Microsoft developers learn later
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