In all honesty part of me thinks services like Codecedemy and others are a good thing and part of me thinks they may be a disservice not to their own fault. Th

In all honesty part of me thinks services like Codecedemy and others are a good thing and part of me thinks they may be a disservice not to their own fault. The problem is when the media starts pumping this stuff with uninformed pieces like this and sends the flood of the masses. There may be a few people that this sets off their career into becoming a true contributor to our community but the last thing we need is a flooding in of unskilled people trying to pass themselves off as hireable. There is a lot of work to be done but we already have enough headaches trying to deal with the mediocre stuff that typically has to be repaired from outsourcing. I guess what rubs me the wrong way is that we already have a lot widespread problems in the tech business with managers and business folks trying to degrade the skill it takes to write good software with the assumption that it will help drive down costs. The way these courses are spun feel like they may be somewhat contributory to this trend in that articles like these make our profession sound similar to going to a 6-week trucking school which does make me quite sad.