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Java jobs are well paid and Javascript is the new BASIC. It's not a bad choice.
by vmorgulis 11y ago
Java jobs are well paid and Javascript is the new BASIC. It's not a bad choice.
- venomsnake 11y agoAnd C and Haskell teach you how to pick up those two in less than a week when you have mastered them. If your goal is not to have codemonkeys - you need to give the people skills to develop themselves further - which means knowing how computers work.
- tveita 11y agoNothing the majority of people learn in High School is well paid. If these programs are effective, entry-level programming jobs will drop to minimum wage from the increased supply. "Coding literacy" may or may not be a worthwhile goal with a net positive impact, but it is certainly not going to let everyone get in on the current tech salaries.
- vmorgulis 11y ago> If these programs are effective, entry-level programming jobs will drop to minimum wage from the increased supply. I think there not very effective but can give a bit of programming culture and maybe the real programming virus to few. This dicussion reminds my the personnal experience of "prog21" at school on a Apple ][: > One guy presented this amazing demo full of animation and shaded images. I'm talking crazy stuff, like a skull that dripped blood from its eye into a rising pool at the bottom of the screen. And that was just one segment of his project. I was stunned. Clearly I wasn't the hotshot programmer I thought was. http://prog21.dadgum.com/87.html http://prog21.dadgum.com/87.html