I could be wrong but my opinion is that one of the biggest problems is that those who teach coding in Kenyan schools *mostly* have never done substantially large software projects. In the end they give students toy examples that only serve to reinforce theoretical concepts from class which are at times far from what is experienced "out there".

On the other hand, class alone is not and can never be sufficient to train effective software development. That is why there are pretty marvellous coders with backgrounds in the Arts, Philosophy and Physics, etc. They tend to be driven by the fact that they came to the field by necessity and tackle actual problems they face.

Martin.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:

This happens when people enroll for courses because they are marketable, rather than due to passion. I have seen brilliant accountants who could barely code studying comp science. They now work in the accounting and auditing field.

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