{"id":31897,"date":"2012-12-24T10:18:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T17:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/24\/academia-vs-the-real-world-cs-edition.html"},"modified":"2012-12-24T10:18:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T17:18:05","slug":"academia-vs-the-real-world-cs-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/24\/academia-vs-the-real-world-cs-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Academia vs. The Real World (CS Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect the same could be said for a variety of more &quot;practical&quot; arts &#8212; plumbing, carpentry, etc. There are blueprints and code &#8212; and then there&#39;s what you find when you start to take a level to the walls or open up into the drywall or peer under the joists &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2006\/02\/27\/vs_team_system_policyfail.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/12\/21\/financial_software_disasters\/print.html'>What Compsci textbooks don&#8217;t tell you: Real world code sucks [printer-friendly] \u2022 The Register<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThere&#8217;s a kind of cognitive dissonance in most people who&#8217;ve moved from the academic study of computer science to a job as a real-world software developer. 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