[GingisK]

Hi there, Pooh! I didn't know you were a software developer. It is nice to be in good company.

I would add that folks should be learning more about formal testing methods and sensible project management techniques. Documentation is a fact of life, yet few people can write even mediocre material.

It seems that the object-oriented design approach is taught by language rather than concept. It surprises me how many folks just plain fail to "containerize" functionality. Global variables, indeed!

[Poohbah]

I would add that folks should be learning more about formal testing methods and sensible project management techniques. Documentation is a fact of life, yet few people can write even mediocre material.

Then I would suggest more writing courses--basic composition, business writing, and technical writing.

I'm not a professional developer, but I've helped manage software projects and found that bad design makes for 80% of your problems. We had one team that tried to do a straight translation of assembly language code from 1969 to Java in 1999. It didn't work.