First, yes, but I didn't know how to title this post for myself.
I've been having a crisis of faith (multiple actually, but let's try to focus). I wanted to get in touch with local universities to let them know about FFConf student tickets, and I figured it would make sense to contact factualities that are web development related.
Except…I couldn't find any.
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Admittedly I'm only looking in the UK and I'm really looking at local universities - so I imagine web dev is a subject … somewhere. I did notice however, that there's lots of subjects under the umbrella of computing and under engineering.
All legitimate, and I also noticed that "Artificial Intelligence" is a subject in those faculties. Heck, I even did a unit on AI back in 1998 (I even have the paper, all 10 pages of it… I'd share if/when I find it again, it's fairly stupid).
I think web development would belong under computing, it's not engineering. The subjects I see now are things like (and this is abridged), Fintech, Games, Data Science and (just) Computing.
Then I start to wonder, what is web development these days? And by "these days", I actually mean in the industry and at the career level, i.e. not side project blog.