From the article: > There are FAR FAR FAR more jobs out there today for someone with the technical skills to build a SharePoint portal, or light up a CRM instan

From the article: > There are FAR FAR FAR more jobs out there today for someone with the technical skills to build a SharePoint portal, or light up a CRM instance or build a bioinformatics database than there are for someone who can build the next Python compiler. Let's stop trying to train the mass of high school students to become preservation carpenters, and instead make them very good contractors. IMO, this is the Java Schools approach to computer learning. How many people here have railed that high school computer training is actually Word and Excel training. It can be valuable, but only if you're learning the underlying concepts and not just learning the keystrokes to do something. We need to teach folks that (a) computers aren't magic, (b) there's a logical approach to solving problems and it happens to be called programming, and (c) programming can be fun. [EDIT: Fixed formatting.]