Comment Re:The things they will NOT learn are interesting (Score 1) 255
I've been interviewing a lot of candidates at work for the past several months and the complete lack of knowledge in recent college grads scares the hell out of me. I've seen several people with 3.7-3.9 GPAs in comp sci from top10 (using us news rankings, yes I know they aren't perfect) engineering schools who couldn't do even basic tasks with pointers.
They spent all their time writing java. That's great if you need to write java but the fact that they didn't learn enough to be able to generalize their skills to other languages while still doing well in school does not day good things about that (and other) schools.
A pointer is not _that_ hard. You should at least be able to copy a linked list in an interview question. I used to have higher standards but the string off candidates I've seen lately has crushed all faith I once had.