{"id":12,"date":"2004-08-16T20:42:52","date_gmt":"2004-08-16T10:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/?p=12"},"modified":"2012-04-01T10:28:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T09:28:11","slug":"teaching-software-development-the-right-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2004\/08\/teaching-software-development-the-right-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching software development the right way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not having worked in industry for all that long I still have many memories of the way software engineering was taught at University. I had an awesome time and experience at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bond.edu.au\">University<\/a> but I think there&#8217;s something about academic institutions that severely affects their ability to keep up with industry. I would definitely like to go into teaching one day as I had ball tutoring but I don&#8217;t think I could ever become a real academic because their <a href=\"http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki?ProjectVelocity\">velocity<\/a> (<em>forgive the poor agile pun<\/em>) is too slow for me. <\/p>\n<p>Andy blogs about this far better here than I could in any post. Definitely good reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not having worked in industry for all that long I still have many memories of the way software engineering was taught at University. I had an awesome time and experience at University but I think there&#8217;s something about academic institutions that severely affects their ability to keep up with industry. 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