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If you're a professional programmer, it would be the same as asking you as a full stack developer to develop a monolith in a datacenter using java on Windows th
by jedberg 4y ago
If you're a professional programmer, it would be the same as asking you as a full stack developer to develop a monolith in a datacenter using java on Windows this year and then next year asking you to develop microservices in Python using linux on Kubernetes.
The high level skills are similar, but the details are all different.
- sokoloff 4y agoThe details of 3rd and 4th grade are that different now?
- jedberg 4y agoYes. For one, science and social studies cover completely different topics. For two, even the math and English cover very different parts of those topics. And 3rd to 4th is also a huge transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn". 4th grade is the first time kids are expected to learn new information on their own from reading it, so it's a very different teaching experience. Changing grades is like starting again as a brand new teacher.
- sokoloff 4y agoThanks for the thought-provoking reply, raising several issues I hadn't considered. It does seem like an inordinately high percentage of third grade teachers are able to learn the equivalent of python microservices on k8s on linux in a single summer as I rarely hear of a teacher being unable to make the leap between 3rd and 4th grade instruction (or vice versa) while developers who are unable to rapidly switch ecosystems is quite common. It is work to be sure, but success seems fairly assured.