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Differences between programming in school vs programming in industry?

This is a general discussion about programming in the industry environment. The background story is that my colleague sent me a very interesting article called "10 Things Entrepreneurs Don’t Learn in College." The first point in that post is about the author's experience of programming in the academic environment vs industry environment. After finishing a 4 year Computer Science degree course, I am currently working in the academic environment as a developer, mainly writing Java, J2EE, Javascript code. I know there are differences between academic programming and industry programming, but I was shocked after reading that post.

Trying to avoid this happening on me in the future, or the others. Can anyone from industry give some general advice about how to program in industry. For example,

• What exactly happens when a task is received?
• What is the flow from the beginning to the end?
• What are the main differences between the programming in industry and academia?
• Is it more structured?
• Are more frameworks used?

It would be great if some code examples could be given.

Thanks.