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To be fair, learning to program is something you do on your own time, and possibly with a lot of your own money (whether to a CS degree program or a bootcamp).
by closeparen 5y ago
To be fair, learning to program is something you do on your own time, and possibly with a lot of your own money (whether to a CS degree program or a bootcamp). In a job training regime, learning to program would be not just free, but itself a solidly compensated full time job.
- mmarq 5y agoAll you need to learn to program is a computer, an internet connection (a 56kbps dialup is good enough) and certain intellectual aptitudes (such as motivation, an average intelligence, etc...). Almost everybody who has these characteristics is already a software developer or a doctor or a lawyer or an accountant or you name what, or they are too young to get a job. Mind, I haven't written "everybody", I'm sure there are some people who, for whatever reason, have been unlucky and ended up in low paid jobs, but the notion that we have a treasure trove of potential scientists and software developers and doctors in Job Centers' queues is patently absurd. On job training regimes, universities and bootcamps don't do a great job at training developers, and almost everybody spends their first 2-3 years effectively in an informal on-the-job training regime.