MIT, CalTech, and Carnegie Mellon all offer multiple app design and development classes to their students. WPI claims to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship yet denies us access to the most fundamental and lucrative skillset available in today's modern world. WPI needs to show its student body it's committed to their success and capable of establishing itself in the post-industrial world.
There should be a greater emphasis on front-end development, user experience and user interface design, and on entrepreneurial and innovative applications instead of industry (where the usual WPI focus lies).
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July 28, 2017
im still reading through all the stories people are leaving in the comments and it really confirms that we are all on the same page about how much this curriculum needs to shift. im busy putting together a list of the specific classes we want to see added so we can present something concrete to the department heads soon.
July 28, 2017
i honestly cant believe how many people feel the same way about this. seeing everyone talk about these gaps in our curriculum really shows just how much we need this change.
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PLZ add mobile dev. Everyone is asking for it at career fair and I have literally nothing to show them.
I'm an incoming design student interested in subjects such as UI/UX design. I was drawn to the classes at WPI for how well they integrate design with computer science, technology, and so on. That being said, I strongly agree that we need more app design/dev classes as a reflection of the current climate. It would be disadvantageous and disappointing for current students to not be better exposed to this crucial part of the industry.
The rise of entrepreneurship at WPI is so exciting, and it's great to see so many students who are eager to explore this emerging avenue of professional work.
We shouldn't have to take online courses from other universities to learn this when we're paying 65k a year for a CS degree.
WPI needs app development courses if it wants any chance in keeping up with other tech schools.
As a recent grad (WPI CS'17) who has done both web and mobile development at internships and will soon start a full time job in mobile development, I wholeheartedly agree that WPI needs to overhaul the CS curriculum to modernize it with web and mobile classes. Compared to friends at other schools, we study rather primitive technologies in many of our CS classes, which are not up to date with current technologies used at top tech companies today. Moreover, we are only offered one introductory mobile development class in Android, which isn't alone adequate to make a competent Android developer (trust me, I TA'd it), whereas iOS development is the most prevalent in the job market. We also only have one class in web development that is only offered one term a year, which entails that many students (including me) are unable to take it due to off campus IQPs and MQPs. Many of us have to resort to taking online courses from Coursera, MIT and Stanford to learn current web and mobile technologies, which should not be the plight of students at a top tech school.
Love to see Native React App development as well.
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MIT, CalTech, and Carnegie Mellon all offer multiple app design and development classes to their students. WPI claims to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship yet denies us access to the most fundamental and lucrative skillset available in today's modern world. WPI needs to show its student body it's committed to their success and capable of establishing itself in the post-industrial world.
There should be a greater emphasis on front-end development, user experience and user interface design, and on entrepreneurial and innovative applications instead of industry (where the usual WPI focus lies).
Updates
July 28, 2017
im still reading through all the stories people are leaving in the comments and it really confirms that we are all on the same page about how much this curriculum needs to shift. im busy putting together a list of the specific classes we want to see added so we can present something concrete to the department heads soon.
July 28, 2017
i honestly cant believe how many people feel the same way about this. seeing everyone talk about these gaps in our curriculum really shows just how much we need this change.
10 Comments
its honestly embarrassing that i have to look on udemy for stuff to put on my resume because the registrar here is living in 2005
PLZ add mobile dev. Everyone is asking for it at career fair and I have literally nothing to show them.
I'm an incoming design student interested in subjects such as UI/UX design. I was drawn to the classes at WPI for how well they integrate design with computer science, technology, and so on. That being said, I strongly agree that we need more app design/dev classes as a reflection of the current climate. It would be disadvantageous and disappointing for current students to not be better exposed to this crucial part of the industry.
The rise of entrepreneurship at WPI is so exciting, and it's great to see so many students who are eager to explore this emerging avenue of professional work.
We shouldn't have to take online courses from other universities to learn this when we're paying 65k a year for a CS degree.
WPI needs app development courses if it wants any chance in keeping up with other tech schools.
As a recent grad (WPI CS'17) who has done both web and mobile development at internships and will soon start a full time job in mobile development, I wholeheartedly agree that WPI needs to overhaul the CS curriculum to modernize it with web and mobile classes. Compared to friends at other schools, we study rather primitive technologies in many of our CS classes, which are not up to date with current technologies used at top tech companies today. Moreover, we are only offered one introductory mobile development class in Android, which isn't alone adequate to make a competent Android developer (trust me, I TA'd it), whereas iOS development is the most prevalent in the job market. We also only have one class in web development that is only offered one term a year, which entails that many students (including me) are unable to take it due to off campus IQPs and MQPs. Many of us have to resort to taking online courses from Coursera, MIT and Stanford to learn current web and mobile technologies, which should not be the plight of students at a top tech school.
Love to see Native React App development as well.
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its honestly embarrassing that i have to look on udemy for stuff to put on my resume because the registrar here is living in 2005