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>I think this stereotype/assumption (east coast, FWIW) - is probably due to the radical uptake on the field" Hmm, I like this, and I think you may be right. U
by hnnewguy 11y ago
>I think this stereotype/assumption (east coast, FWIW) - is probably due to the radical uptake on the field"
Hmm, I like this, and I think you may be right.
Unless you worked in a pretty scientific field, just 25 years ago "computers" were associated with games, and were something that "kids used". Now they're ubiquitous. And this just happened in a generation or two. Over the next couple of decades, the workforce will be chock full of people who grew up programming, or at least tinkering.
- riffraff 11y ago> 5 years ago "computers" were associated with games, and were something that "kids used". Are you sure? 25 years ago I was around ten and I knew a ton of people with a NES, but computers were expensive and stuff for Serious People.
- 31reasons 11y agoI think OP has a valid argument. People who are 50+ now started programming when not many people even heard of computers. The major increase in CS graduates in recent decade will mean that when 20-30 something will become 50+ year old in next 2 decades, there should be lot less ageism related factor as programming industry would have matured by then.