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I have a suspicion (albeit a light one), that programming in itself will become a commodity skill, like "good writing" (something you _have_ to know to score we
by winter_blue 14y ago
I have a suspicion (albeit a light one), that programming in itself will become a commodity skill, like "good writing" (something you _have_ to know to score well on the SAT/GRE).
It would become a necessary skill that simply everyone in a wide variety of fields (doctors, accountants, etc) where programming is the slightest bit helpful would have.
In such an age and era, will programmers get paid anything close to what they get paid today?
- pacala 14y agoProgramming is about fast thinking, good organization, good prioritization, continuous learning, continuous automatization, sharing and yes, good writing. The actual coding is a side-show.
- geon 14y agoYou seem to have "good writing". Could you write a novel, with a captivating, nonobvious plot, interesting characters and a twist ending? You probably can score ok in a math SAT. Can you visualize the mathematics of a quaternion, or formulate the equation for an n-sided betzier patch? The work a linguistic/novelist/journalist or a mathematican is not on the highscool level. Neither is the work of a programmer. I do believe basic programming should be taught, just like basic math and writing skills. But that has absolutely nothing to do with proffessional programming.
- dpark 14y agoMost people don't write well, even most educated people. It's not the commodity you seem to believe. The GRE/SAT test for the ability to write essays on a specified topic in the format that the GRE/SAT want. This doesn't really reflect useful writing in the real world. Plus most people don't have great GRE/SAT scores anyway. You don't have to have outstanding scores to get into most programs. You just need decent scores.