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The Gap Nobody Talks About :Students, Companies & The Technology Pressure

DEV Community·Anushka Shinde·6 months ago
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TBH

Being a CS student in India right now feels like running a race where the finish line keeps moving.

Companies want updated skills.

College teaches outdated ones.

YouTube tutorials are 4 years old.And somehow it's all your fault for not knowing.

The College Curriculum Problem

The industry moves fast. Syllabuses don't.

Whatever Java version colleges are currently teaching it's already behind what companies

are actually using in production.

Curriculum approval takes years in India.By the time a technology gets into the syllabus,the industry has already moved two versions ahead.

It's not entirely the teachers' fault.The system is slow.But students pay the price for that slowness every single time they walk into an interview.

The YouTube Problem

So we turn to YouTube.Because where else do you go?

But here's the reality most tutorials you find are 3-4 years old.The presenter is teaching a version of a framework that's already been updated twice.

You learn it.…

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