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I know one flash programmer who suddenly found herself without a job and in a tough situation. She had to completely learn a new skillset: HTML5 and javascript

I know one flash programmer who suddenly found herself without a job and in a tough situation. She had to completely learn a new skillset: HTML5 and javascript and the Front end web. It took a whole year for her to get up to speed and get a new job. To prevent this from happening to me, I like to keep an eye on which technologies and programming languages are in highest demand, and which direction they're moving in terms of job demand. So, I created this app that measure programming language demand based on job postings and analyzes on a city by city basis, cross-referencing with salaries posted: https://skilldime.com/ https://skilldime.com/

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enjoyyourlife 7y ago
>HTML5 and javascript and the Front end web. It took a whole year for her to get up to speed and get a new job. It took her a year to learn HTML and Javascript?
ubu7737 7y ago
There is no such thing as a "Flash programmer" and there never was. You are either a practitioner or you are a programmer. A year to learn a different stack and put it into practice to satisfy the prior art? She was no programmer. She was applying rote patterns and had no programming ability. Stop conflating practice with programming ability. It's like saying she was a doctor, but it took her a year to learn to use a different stethoscope. In 2000 during the dot-com boom we learned to talk about IT "tourists", and the tourism did not end with the crash in 2001. If you direct your career by keeping a close eye on job postings, you are definitely a tourist. The bootcamp culture and the emphasis on teaching young people to "code" is nothing better than the travel agency encouraging people to spend their vacation dollars on a trip to the Caribbean. Creating more tourists to satisfy the demands of an expanding industry does less than nothing to satisfy the real technology needs of a growing sector. Nurses are not doctors.

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enjoyyourlife 7y ago

>HTML5 and javascript and the Front end web. It took a whole year for her to get up to speed and get a new job. It took her a year to learn HTML and Javascript?

ubu7737 7y ago

There is no such thing as a "Flash programmer" and there never was. You are either a practitioner or you are a programmer. A year to learn a different stack and put it into practice to satisfy the prior art? She was no programmer. She was applying rote patterns and had no programming ability. Stop conflating practice with programming ability. It's like saying she was a doctor, but it took her a year to learn to use a different stethoscope. In 2000 during the dot-com boom we learned to talk about IT "tourists", and the tourism did not end with the crash in 2001. If you direct your career by keeping a close eye on job postings, you are definitely a tourist. The bootcamp culture and the emphasis on teaching young people to "code" is nothing better than the travel agency encouraging people to spend their vacation dollars on a trip to the Caribbean. Creating more tourists to satisfy the demands of an expanding industry does less than nothing to satisfy the real technology needs of a growing sector. Nurses are not doctors.