RobbieTheGeek.Com

I spend a lot of time reading, listening, and consuming technology and technology news. Those that have met me will back up my claim that I am very, very enthusiastic about web stuff. I am also back in school trying to finish my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, so I have been getting even more knowledge crammed in my head. I am in a strange position since I attended college at the undergraduate in the mid-90's and right now. I have a few observations:

1. College students in the 90s were much more excited and engaged in their classes. I am a big mouth admittedly but there are many classes where the only 2 voices that you could hear are the teacher and mine.
2. Computer Science departments generally are teaching the same exact underlying classes. I am starting over with the programming because the convener suggested that it has been a long time since I wrote code. But the amusement I see in this is that the classes are still being taught in C++ the same way as 12 years ago.
3. The teachers in the Computer Science department haven't changed. I have taken 2 Computer Science classes and both teachers have been 65+ years of age and they are both purely academic at this portion of their careers. Where are the younger, working developers who can teach us?
4. My perspective has totally changed in 12 years. I never really felt comfortable writing code, especially in C++. I have realized that programming is not nearly as scary as I once thought. Lots of years of experience and confidence in technology mean that college classwork is not nearly as difficult as I once thought.
5. Going back to school hasn't changed my view of things, just that you are responsible for your own excitement, and engaging what it is that you are interested in. No one from teachers that have been through all of this before, to apathetic students that are disconnected and removed from the subject matter, can be relied on to make your learning experience better. This is on your shoulders, get involved, ask questions, find outside places to engage your own curiosity, school is there for validating what you have learned it is on you to learn it...

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