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Do those apps that 14 year olds work on require an in depth understanding of how threads work? How different hardware components work together at scale? Most pe
by zjaffee 9y ago
Do those apps that 14 year olds work on require an in depth understanding of how threads work? How different hardware components work together at scale? Most people with CS degrees never acquire the skillset to do such work, why should I believe that those who are trained via job training programs will be able to do so. I'd be more afraid of potential retraining of other highly skilled workers who want to switch careers than anything else.
The skillset of building a personal website, or even a website for your small business should be something anyone can do, and will in no way impact the overall salary of software engineers in the future.
Major companies will always need people who understand the computational sciences, as scale and complexity follow some of the same rules as entropy, in that they are always increasing.
Additionally, the reason for high salaries is not a lack of engineers, it is that top companies have decided that it is in their best interest to outbid each other for top talent. In parts of the midwest, where there is less competition, engineers are already paid 50k a year.
- colemannugent 9y ago>Do those apps that 14 year olds work on require an in depth understanding of how threads work? I am constantly surprised that when other CS students in my classes have zero idea how anything beyond the particular language we're learning works. Even in higher skill-level classes that require a fair amount of proficiency with the language if you asked what the length of the pointer they just properly used was all you would get is blank stares.
- xfer 9y ago> "how anything beyond the particular language we're learning works. " and > "if you asked what the length of the pointer they just properly used was all you would get is blank stares" So what is it? It's a computer science program, not learn a dozen language's quirks and implementation detail that you use for a single class to understand some concept.
- grigjd3 9y agoIt's not that bad in the midwest. Salaries in the 70-80K range are common enough.