>apprenticeship Y'know, that's actually an interesting thought. Maybe most programming's best understood as a craft or trade, like being a plumber or electrici

>apprenticeship Y'know, that's actually an interesting thought. Maybe most programming's best understood as a craft or trade, like being a plumber or electrician[1]. It's a fundamentally blue-collar job that you happen to do while sitting at a keyboard. It's like if we insisted that all electrician work, including things like house wiring and utility pole maintenance, required a full four-year electrical engineering degree. [1]This is not an insult. "X is basically just plumbing" is said with a sneer by fools who drastically underestimate how difficult and complicated plumbing actually is. There's a reason they're so expensive.