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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bqpjHSO12WO49xU5ohmzpZ0mB28/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bqpjHSO12WO49xU5ohmzpZ0mB28/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Note: This is not an attack on educational institutions in the slightest. My first real job in the technology world was at a college, and it was a great experience and a wonderful place. 

I am an avid fan of places like Reddit which has sub-communities built around software development. I’ve run across posts in the past that contain student developers asking questions such as “Why didn’t I &lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DefinitiveCode/~4/8m-4S4PDl6U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><feedburner:origLink>http://www.definitivecode.com/2011/12/what-i-wish-software-development.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>

