Hi everyone , sorry for hijacking this thread and this might seem some kind of rant to some developers/engineers anyways thanks for reading on :)<p>The University I'm currently studying in is state university and one of the deemed in my country. I'm studying bachelor in CS (4yrs) course and 2nd year is about to end. This semester we were taught about S/W engineering as a separate subject. I had huge expectations with it because I was primarily interested in different kinds of methodology and norms that real s/w engg followed in the world out there.<p>Now what happened through out the semester was , we were taught management , micromanagement and how to write beautiful pdfs in non-paid MS Words :|. There was not a single class where we were taught milestones , scrums , agile and software design , documentation , working collaboratively , dividing work , version control , just nothing. Instead focus was solely upon management works like Risk management , how to make RMMI tables , how to make gnatt chart using excel and things like those.<p>Don't get me wrong , I believe that planning ahead for risks is better step , making gnatt chart might help someone someday , but is this management thing software engineering?
Also I haven't mentioned about what we had to do for semester project in this subject. We have my practical tomorrow , most of students are submitting variations of parking lot software , which comes up 1st on google searches.<p>What I'm afraid of is , almost 99% of students already have no idea about programming , and alike me , they too had expectations that they might actually get to work on simple , even non-GUI kind of software and learn something better , but everyone is kind of disappointed after this. Is this real software engineering? Are software engineers paid to do this?