It could have something to do with universities in those regions attempting to teach marketable skills. My own experience in having been forced to learn Ada instead of C/C++ resulted in me only being able to find a job at defense companies. That quite often results in your job being classified so you can't tell prospective employers what you did or show them examples of your work.
That's funny, because various universities in the south west of Germany used to teach Ada in the mid 2000's. They did it because it was seen as an academically valuable language for learning how to program properly.
At least that's what I've been told by complaining students that switched to my university where we learned C, C++, MATLAB, assembler, and VHDL (not exactly software development).
Having graduated over 10 years ago, I've got some different opinions on what universities in Germany teach to people, and maybe what universities teach in general.
If you're in the science and engineering fields they mostly teach you mathematics. All the other skills you can acquire on your own. An opinion that has been at least anecdotally confirmed by a lot of self-taught programmers that I've met who were quite good at programming, despite never having seen the inside of a university. Of course this req
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It could have something to do with universities in those regions attempting to teach marketable skills. My own experience in having been forced to learn Ada instead of C/C++ resulted in me only being able to find a job at defense companies. That quite often results in your job being classified so you can't tell prospective employers what you did or show them examples of your work.
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At least that's what I've been told by complaining students that switched to my university where we learned C, C++, MATLAB, assembler, and VHDL (not exactly software development).
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Students: "We don't want to program properly, we want to get a job."
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If you're in the science and engineering fields they mostly teach you mathematics. All the other skills you can acquire on your own. An opinion that has been at least anecdotally confirmed by a lot of self-taught programmers that I've met who were quite good at programming, despite never having seen the inside of a university. Of course this req