In continuation to my earlier blog about colonization of the educational system, let me tell you about another dilemma that we face in the software industry.
From the childhood, it is being taught to us about the philosophy of "Do it yourself". The more advanced we go in studies, the more severe becomes the problem. In lower classes the teacher may ask the students not even to make a phone call to complete the home task. This way we enter the professional fields. And then suddenly we are asked to co-operate and collaborate. I don't know about other industries, but in software development this is very essential, because software development is a complete collaborative game. But it is very difficult to get rid of which has been injected into us from the childhood, namely "Do it yourself". Hence "my code, your code", "my bug, your bug" kinds of syndromes are very prominent in the software industry.
Is it possible to eradicate this disease without changing our educational system?
Probably then only we can give somebody a pure enjoyable software career......
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