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But this quote from the article > "We need digital literacy and common sense, not someone who can program a Raspberry Pi to control a robot," Mr Howell told th
by alibarber 6y ago
But this quote from the article
> "We need digital literacy and common sense, not someone who can program a Raspberry Pi to control a robot," Mr Howell told the BBC.
I'm getting the impression that this is not about programming or SEs being paid SV salarys - I think it's the age old 'how do computers think? - how can I leverage them in my job?' kind of skills.
- colesantiago 6y agoIt's actually both someone who can program AND has digital literacy, but for less pay.
- tomatocracy 6y agoYes I think that's right. But I think that quote misses the point that there's a connection - if someone has been taught roughly how to program a Raspberry Pi to control a robot (even if they did it at school 10+ years ago), that might give them enough confidence to go and work out how to script whatever monotonous Excel task they do in VBA etc with a little help from Google.
- unishark 6y agoI thought that quote was silly. If there's a useful point in there I'm missing it. Someone who can program a raspberry pi to control a robot may not be able to instantly debug your legacy spaghetti code with zero supervision on day one of the job. But I think robot programmers meet a pretty solid standard already if we only had enough such graduates.
- alibarber 6y agoI dunno - I read it as more of: "The History of Art Grad from Prestigious University who is on Grad Scheme at $BIG_BANK fails to grasp that instead of emailing 100 people individually and copy pasting responses into a spread sheet, he/she could just use Google Forms or something", so, more fundamental skills. Our hypothetical humanities graduate here didn't explicitly study this as a degree, and shouldn't have to, any more than they didn't need a degree in maths to count.