What has happen to degree and cert?

Today went for another onsite project in canon machinery. As usual I have a usual chat with the IT manager for certain IT paradigm shift and what's upcoming progress of the project.

Technology has become better, life styles have improve but sadly our education level has deteriorated years by years. Of course faizul study time is much earlier than me, because he has children and family now compare to me still "single". Well, even that time he doesnt' have any IT courses like multimedia, networking and those miscellaneous major. And perhaps they will have computer science as I remember my elder brother used to study that in informatics.

But as time progressed, my time have software engineering, business IT, computer science and many more IT majoring. Yet it only serves for quantity purpose not quality. When I was talking to faizul this early morning. He was telling me that, he has a friend who graduated in IT majoring multimedia. As far as I remember during your foundation year, you should learn about PC maintenance and trouble shooting. At that course you can format your computer, setup OS and then perform application/software installation. Well of course it covers more stuff from there.

Me and faiz could not believe that this guy have to send his computer for formating. and even recommended faiz to send his computer to this vendor if any problem occurs. I am not sure whether he got no time to fomat the computer or he really has too much money to spend. But I can say I kind a believe that he doesn't know how to format the computer and reinstall everything. The reason is simple, 7/10 fresh grads that finish programming courses that come for job interview do not know how to develop a program.

Previously I am really curious why such things will happen that a degree cert now is just like an ordinary toilet paper. People who finished some network admin or network engineer course do not know how to troubleshoot or configure the router. When I try to recall back how my study last time, I believe most lecturers are just teaching about theory. And most of them do not have practical skill in what they are teaching. Some of the students do not really voice up their question if they do not understand. The worst thing is you can't argue with your lecturer, they will always say they are right. And you are wrong LOL!. So at the end all the student end up silence and just listen to their theory teaching.

As faiz said, in western, they teach about practical and also application of the theory. If you ask them about the theory they will just ask you to refer to book and then apply the formula. That's why real way of making people understand the concept. Here when I see those lecturers teach about Object oriented or UML everything is just about theory. STill talking about car and trucks is the sub class of transport. Whenever the students read about it, they understand the relationship of car is transport. But in programming why Object oriented? Can't they show some better example that promote reusability and also code readability?

Especially when we were studying Artificial intelligence, all the students are so suffer in the class trying to comprehend what they indian guy from india is teaching. And most annoying thing is his indian slang. Even now, we still can remember the statement he is trying to say in indian slang. If all the birds fly in the air live under water likewise FALSE. Tom is the father of Zu and zu is the Son of Tom, like wise true. I mean everyone know what statement is true or false. But what is the application of studying all this. And we were never taught how to implement an AI system or not even a DSS. What a joke. Just like Mr. Joke said, his life is a joke LOL!

while I was writing this blog, I posted this status message in FB "Nowadays degree is really like toilet paper, graduate from IT still have to send their PC for vendor to format... sigh.." Some smart ass replied me: "lol.... well....degree din teach how to format PC =P" Perhaps 6/10 people will think like that, and that's why when they graduate in IT and so called IT professional have to send their PC to a non-degree holder that only has SPM cert to format their PC.

I should say LOL.... well... degree din teach you how to earn money and get a job? So why you get a job? LOL! and now I REALLY understand why last time the fresh grad copy paste my source code and still ask me why cannot work? and don't know how to debug! Is really vomit blood. How can someone MEMORIZE programming. Programming should be analytical and problem solving, not memories the same source code and copy paste. If it is so simple, a computer can just do it. Microsoft has copy and paste function since long long long ago. We don't need a programmer. But i know many my friends really memorize programming to pass the test. Sigh.....