> Your lecturer is significantly undermining your education (which you pay for!).
In Germany, at state universities, you typically only pay money for the student self-administration. The huge "payment" is rather the opportunity cost.
> The purpose of your CS degree is to build a strong theoretical foundation
In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43533033 Loeffelmann wrote that this happened at a Fachhochschule, not at a university. The purpose of universities is to give the student a strong theoretical foundation to prepare them for doing research. The purpose of Fachhochschulen is to prepare the student for working in jobs outside of academia.
If the studen isn't paying out of pocket themselves, the tax payer is. Demand better. I am strongly on the side of a well funded government, education should at the very least be subsidized, and all that, but it's people like this that can be used to justify Doge and other insane """efficiency programmes""".
In Germany, at state universities, you typically only pay money for the student self-administration. The huge "payment" is rather the opportunity cost.
> The purpose of your CS degree is to build a strong theoretical foundation
In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43533033 Loeffelmann wrote that this happened at a Fachhochschule, not at a university. The purpose of universities is to give the student a strong theoretical foundation to prepare them for doing research. The purpose of Fachhochschulen is to prepare the student for working in jobs outside of academia.