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The Collapse of Academia #13

Closed samerlahoud closed 7 years ago

samerlahoud commented 7 years ago

Thank you for the brilliant article on "The Collapse of Academia". In the article, there is one sentence that can be seen as an overstatement "At Apple Academy, it’s even worse: students only learn Apple’s programing language, ensuring that they are locked in for the rest of their professional lives." In fact, the academy official website (https://www.developeracademy.unina.it/en/about/) lists the topics that are taught. These topics are relatively broad and cover object oriented programming, databases, or design patterns. However, the statement of the article is not wrong: the only programming langage that is mentioned is Swift, which is developed by Apple. Maybe replacing "students only learn Apple’s programing language" by "the only programming language that is taught is developed by Apple" solves the issue.

n-kb commented 7 years ago

Thanks for correcting! My opinion on Apple Academy also comes from what I saw while researching it: a closed, secretive institution that reminds of a guild, not of a university.