Poll of the Day > I'm kind of jealous of kids now who get to learn code at a young age, but...

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on the other hand, I wonder if by the time they start entering the workforce those skills will even be of much use. I've heard some claims now that there is already an oversatuation of developers, but I also hear that some areas have talent shortages in software, so I don't know. I'm sure that coding will be useful in 10-15 years, but in the same way that Excel is still useful now but isn't an impressive qualification anymore.

This kind of thing always seems like it's a generation behind. It's cool to get young people into it, but the workers of the future should be learning the skills of the future, not the skills of the present. Of course, it's hard to know what the skills of the future will be.

the logic required to do code will be useful in all parts of life
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I learned basic back in high school, that's useful right?

JOExHIGASHI posted...

the logic required to do code will be useful in all parts of life

Except getting laid.

source: me
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Yellow posted...

JOExHIGASHI posted...

the logic required to do code will be useful in all parts of life

Except getting laid.

source: me

No one has made a serious attempt to solve a girl as a series of complex interactions?
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Lokarin posted...

No one has made a serious attempt to solve a girl as a series of complex interactions?

You have to be attractive.

I might have been able to figure that out, but I'm hardly closer to getting any, am I?
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IT has huge demand because it's a core component of any sizable corporation, including government. You can get into almost any field with IT.
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Lokarin posted...

Yellow posted...

JOExHIGASHI posted...

the logic required to do code will be useful in all parts of life

Except getting laid.

source: me

No one has made a serious attempt to solve a girl as a series of complex interactions?

You mean dating simulators?
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It's like learning philosophy, it's more for your overall understanding and ability to reason than it is for retaining a particular piece of information.
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Do kids really learn code? I mean, the average general majority kids, not whatever kids wind up getting interested on their own and choosing to specialize in it (like people have been doing for 50 or so years).

Because it seems to me like we're in the phase of computer ownership now where most people neither know nor care how their computer works, and would have absolutely zero interest in coding (and even less need to know coding for anything significant at the base level, which is all 99.44% of users really do anyway). I feel like the window (no pun intended) to teach coding as some kind of universal skill has long since closed.

Sort of like how, in the 1950s, it was sort of seen as a badge of manliness to be able to work on your own car, and now most people in the US couldn't change their own oil if their life depended on it. Most people can do most of the things they want to do most of the time without knowing a single line of code (and there are always other people to harass when it becomes important), so the interest isn't there.

Back in college I coded my own web page (or more accurately, pages - I made dozens of them) from source code in Notepad (even when web editors were a thing, because code always seemed more flexible to me), but I don't think a single kid under 18 could make a web page today without easy GUI editing or do-it-yourself helper programs to do all the under the hood work for them.


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coding jobs yes
coding careers no
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I not sure everybody needs to know how to write a program "from scratch" in C or Java or whatever; but since everybody uses computers these days, everybody should know how to generally go about "telling computers what to do" and how you have to be precise about it. And depending on people's needs, that might result in a lot of people learning how to write little program-like things in Word, Excel, etc.

(I didn't come up with this view on my own, but I don't have the link to where I first read this.)

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turn your 5 year old into a venture capitalist!
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