Stop Teaching Me COBOL While the Industry Asks for Kubernetes!!!

The most useless thing I learned in college this week? The difference between a stack and a queue... for the fifth time. (Followed by three hours of rote diagram drawing).

I'm supposed to be graduating into a world where companies are hiring for React, AWS, Docker, and distributed systems. Yet, my curriculum is still obsessed with:

Assembly Language (Because optimizing CPU cycles on a vintage mainframe is definitely what I'll do at a startup in Bengaluru).

FORTRAN (The language of science... from 1957. Perfect for my mandatory 'Viva' exam).

Theory, Theory, Theory—We can spend weeks debating the theoretical efficiency of a Bubble Sort, but we've never touched a single Git merge conflict or learned how to deploy a basic app to the Cloud. Forget DevOps.

My "modern programming" course uses Java syntax from 2010. They teach us what a microservice is, but the only thing we ever build is a static HTML page in NetBeans. The focus is on passing the end-semester exam, not building the next big thing.

The Indian IT industry needs developers who can ship code and collaborate. The curriculum churns out academic experts who can score 90% in theory but freeze when asked to set up a basic environment. Then they wonder why new grads struggle to get that first high-paying job.

++ if your prestigious university is living in the stone age!