Learning from production, not toy tasks

Most courses stop at the level of toy exercises. At Dev Collegium we try to move participants to real production code as early as possible.

Why toy tasks are not enough

• They rarely contain **real constraints** — legacy, budgets, deadlines, people.\n- Mistakes do not hurt money, which means motivation is lower.\n- It is hard to feel the real cost of bad decisions.

What we do differently

• We give tasks from real products, not fictional startups.\n- We run detailed code reviews with discussion, not checkbox validation.\n- We show how to discuss architecture and trade‑offs with the team.

type ReviewComment = {
  file: string;
  line: number;
  message: string;
};

function addComment(comment: ReviewComment) {
  // in real life there would be Git/tracker integration here
  console.log(`[${comment.file}:${comment.line}] ${comment.message}`);
}

The main goal is not to show the \"right\" code once, but to plug the participant into a living process: product, team and constraints.