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This is getting worse indeed, i came across entry level professionals that knew nothing about 'Swing'....

Great article....which explains the flood of "please help me wipe my behind" posts on the Spring forums recently.

Courses do have coding projects, so I guess there's *some* exposure to coding - except, there's no review/grade for the code itself: you could write terrible code and still can get an A if it produces the results it needs to. We grade essays for a million things, including style - why not do the same for code?

That's very true, most projects are not being marked for code styling and how clean are the codes. It is often the case for database courses as well, students often use all sorts of tools to generate their SQL & PL/SQL queries, get some sort of answers from their databases and they think the job is done... Programming courses and the way projects are marked need to be reviewed and adapted to the current market.

Programming teachers have the attitude that you're on your own when it comes to assignments and if it does not work they wont go through the code with you. Worse of all they wont even explain what you did wrong after grading the assignment I can recall assignments where they came back graded low and simply stated "Does not work" or "Does not compile". Most programming teachers do not go through the logic of each assignment, it is a heavy task but should be a requirement for professors. My last programming class last semester there was one teacher who went through every line of code and would detail every thing you did wrong. That is the correct way to teach programming but most professors do not critique coding assignments. My advice is if your majoring in anything regarding programming find the best school in your state and attend that college. ie UFL is rated as the best CS school in FL.

Voted up for the honesty.