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That's a nice ideal. Have you considered that people will tend to do the former part and not the latter, leaving us with a population of people with obsolete sk
by Kalium 12y ago
That's a nice ideal. Have you considered that people will tend to do the former part and not the latter, leaving us with a population of people with obsolete skills and lacking the foundation to easily learn new ones?
- vinceguidry 12y agoThere's enough people in tech right now that don't have degrees. I'm one of them. So I doubt this would become a huge problem.
- Kalium 12y agoI submit that bootcamps are creating this problem right now. Many bootcamp graduates have poor grasps of the basics of computing, which will tend to limit their skill and career growth. For instance, it's difficult to grasp functional programming if imperative PHP is literally the only thing you know.
- pitt1980 12y agoI don't see any evidence that taking college classes lays any foundation for learning additional skills later
- Kalium 12y agoI have seen evidence that a fundamental understanding of computing makes it easier to learn particular languages later.