In my job I interview client-side developers on a fairly regular basis. As some of you may know, it’s quite hard to find qualified applicants. A lot of the resumes I read are from folks who started web development in ’99, taught themselves this new thing called web development, but failed to keep up with the times — I’m always shocked at how many resumes I see that don’t list CSS as a skill.
These people aren’t my problem. If you aren’t interested in continuing education, fine, see you later.
My problem is with the people who just got out of school, actually studied web development (very recently), and still have no CSS, DOM or XHTML skills. Heck, I’m glad if they’ve heard of them!
And, to be precise, my problem isn’t with the people — it’s with the schools who are teaching them legacy crap, and aren’t teaching the skills needed to be competitive, or even competent in today’s market.
This is something that really should be looked into, and I think I will.
Students are paying to learn legacy crap!