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"But I’d never even heard of the words front-end developer or full-stack. What was Heroku? Never heard of Xcode. Wasn’t git just the thing you used to make sure your partner had access to the code you’d written? Frameworks? Didn’t you just need HTML and Javascript? What the hell was an API?!"

If you literally never heard about any of those during your computer science courses, you attended a sad, sad university.

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Apart from HTML/Javascript, which is usually taught in a web development course, most of these aren't taught in usual computer science courses because they have nothing to do with computer science. They are software engineering concepts.

I am well aware of that, being a CS student myself. However, those things are expected to be learned alongside. There won't be lectures about it but hand-on exercises will be impossible without them.

Lol that's not true either. How would hands-on exercises be impossible without Heroku? Haha. You know what I did in my CS classes? Wrote my own server in C. That's real CS, which is very focused on deep understanding -- not domain knowledge in software tools. You should ditch the attitude. Your first comment wasn't even necessary. You were just looking to feel good about yourself.

You wrote your own server without using any kind of API (e.g. TCP sockets)? I don't believe you ;)

Or went to university a decade or so ago, where instead of XCode it was emacs, instead of git it was cvs, and so on ..

Or you went to university a decade or two earlier?

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