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Discussion on: Should university teach current or future technologies?

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Idan Arye

What my university did is teach us how to learn. We had a Python course (well, more like a subcourse - it was embedded in a bigger course that taught basic programming with C/C++) where they didn't actually teach Python, but instead had us follow an online tutorial and do assignments. So, more than a Python course, this was a course about how to learn new technology.

Now, Python is hardly a "future technology", but the same concept can still be used - teach the students how to learn a new technology, and they will be able to use that skill to learn actual future technologies once they need to.