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sheer, growing number of MOOCs available will cause the high amount gatekeeping from many prospective employers I did a MOOC, nothing wrong with them. A lot of
by gaius 8y ago
sheer, growing number of MOOCs available will cause the high amount gatekeeping from many prospective employers
I did a MOOC, nothing wrong with them. A lot of it turned out to be just revising things I had originally learned in my BEng or MSc, but I learned some things too. And a bit of revision never hurt. I don’t think I had done much calculus “in anger” since graduating for example, so that was rusty.
In 5 years or 10 years there will be no data scientists as a full time job - the skills will just be folded into regular programming jobs or accounting jobs or whatever. If you’re in that job now, make hay while the sun shines
- ihsw2 8y ago"Full Stack Developer" will mean everything from heavy front-end dev work to scaling out a monolithic in-house back-end framework into microservices to cobbling together Android/iOS apps to slapping ML on top of it all and calling it a day. Oh and it will all run on JS.
- gaius 8y agoSee http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/11/07/which-full-stack-developer-are-you/ http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/11/07/which-full-stack-de...
- mikert5671 8y ago"In ten years all programming will be either outsourced or automated..." -everyone in the 90s
- gaius 8y agoWhen I started in this game, just being able to put up a website made you hot stuff. HTML and CGI were cutting edge. But for a long time now, those skills are totally commoditized. That’s what I mean.