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Once you know one language well, many of the skills transfer. Besides, he states he is looking for an ENTRY level position and fully realizes he's not a guru.

• DisposaBoy 16y ago
  Yes many skills transfer. Like how one ane write C++ from readin the docs without ever learning C++ or how one can write C++ having only ever learned C. The part you're missing is that it doesn't make you any good in C++, in fact I'd argue that it makes you terrible if you're going to try to write X code in Y language. The fact that it's entry-level doesn't mean anything. A lot of times these entry-level jobs aren't something you can just go and start pasting code together.
• Hubbert 16y ago
  Yes. Experience is great, but everyone has to start somewhere. The unemployment rate for under 25 is extremely high. Society doesn't focus much attention these days on "upward mobility." But but an overreliance on "experience" (generally "paid, professional experience"), in extremis, will permanently shut out an entire generation from the world of middle-class employment. Is that really a good idea? "Resolved: Individuals who did not have a good (preferably government) job on July 31, 2007 and a record of unblemished professional success with progressive experience and responsibility and no failures or false starts should abandon all hope." Is this really what we want to promote?