App Design and Development Classes Should be Offered by WPI
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Tyler Pearson
9 years ago
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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
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Sarah Oliver
9 years ago
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PLZ add mobile dev. Everyone is asking for it at career fair and I have literally nothing to show them.
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Himanshu Sahay
9 years ago
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.
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David Deisadze
9 years ago
Love to see Native React App development as well.
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Anonymous
9 years ago
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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.
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Irakli Grigolia
9 years ago
I totally agree
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Anonymous
9 years ago
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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.
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Santiago Sada
9 years ago
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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.
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Jessica Elder
9 years ago
Way 2 tell the man how it b
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Bryannah Voydatch
9 years ago
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WPI needs app development courses if it wants any chance in keeping up with other tech schools.
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.
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.
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.
I totally agree
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.
Way 2 tell the man how it b
WPI needs app development courses if it wants any chance in keeping up with other tech schools.