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What’s blocking students from building real-world projects in college? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days ago by howdy_asta@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev
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Hey everyone — I'm a final-year student, and I’ve been wondering this a lot lately. We always hear that “you need a good project to land a job”, but most students I know either copy from GitHub, get stuck, or just... give up. We’re doing a small open survey to understand this from both sides — students and educators. If you've ever: Built or struggled with a final-year project

Helped someone else do it (educator/mentor)

Wanted to sell or learn from real-world projects

We’d love to hear your honest experience. 🙏 It’s just 2–3 mins, totally anonymous. 📄 Survey Link – for students & educators

We’ll be using the insights to create open resources and maybe a system that actually helps. Thanks in advance if you participate — or drop a comment about your experience.

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 8 points 6 days ago

Money and time.

Tons of people build cool projects during their time in university, but the vast vast majority of people don't because they are eating beans and rice and ramen and pizza and studying, not spending 500€-1000€ on iterative prototyping and the equipment to test everything.