good luck on this one
Yeah, right!
And yet Suckerberg wants to vastly expand H-1b visas to import their replacements.
Yeah, it’s that simple.
Oye
000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD.
000300
000400*
000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
000600 CONFIGURATION SECTION.
000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000900
001000 DATA DIVISION.
001100 FILE SECTION.
001200
100000 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
100100
100200 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION.
100300 BEGIN.
100400 DISPLAY “ “ LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS.
100500 DISPLAY “Hello world!” LINE 15 POSITION 10.
100600 STOP RUN.
100700 MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT.
100800 EXIT.
Why don’t they just teach these kids to make Ferraris instead? s/
They have employment for life. With rare exceptions like mass layoffs, certain employees are not fired no matter what.
I think there are a couple of good points here.
One, a self-avowed communist is embracing capitalism.
Two, if he can get black kids interested in education, kudos.
Maybe they can get rid of the stigma of black kids studying who are then accused of acting white. Its not acting white. Its doing what works.
I wish him success.
I hope he pours ALL of this time into this and spends $100 million doing it.
I think after he finishes tearing his hair out he’s going to learn a very, very good lesson.
I would like to learn coding myself, but the few computer classes I’ve taken become very boring very quickly. I’ll keep looking for the right class and the right instructor.
Well, now I've seen everything. Van Jones saying something I agree with. My contention for years has been that the personal resources of the black community are America's greatest wasted asset.
If these rich black men want to spend their money to incentivize black youth, it's fine with me. More power to them. I withhold judgment until I see results however. They could just as easily join the Jesse Jackson/Jim Brown racial scam brigade.
Great. I look forward to the Rap Virus.
A few observations:
1) There is no coding language in Ebonics;
2) To code, English must be read;
3) At least they won’t hack or write malware - that would be called a code “cracker”...
Thanks for posting this. An interesting subject.
“that when African-American young people wear hoodies people think they’re thugs, but when white kids wear hoodies you assume that they’re going to be dot-com billionaires,”
hmmmm..... wonder who they could blame that on ?
“We just started thinking: ‘Well, how do we turn that around?’”
Well... we could lower our standards to rock bottom.
In basketball, you can’t coach height. In IT, you can’t teach IQ or creativity.
Good luck with that. Writing computer code for public use is one of the most tedious jobs in the world. Some people are cut out for it, most are not. Moreover it tales a good bit of knowledge of common things such as the English language and mathematics to be any good at it.
As usual, the dumb just keep getting dumber
To code well, you need several attributes:
— Ability to read and quickly comprehend technical material
— Ability to think logically
-- The ability to break down large problems into smaller, solvable pieces.
-- Reasonable math ability. Maybe not calculus to be a programmer, but algebra and trig are a must. You MUST take calculus, however, if you want a BS degree in computer science.
— Perhaps most importantly though: patience and perseverance. If you can't deal with frequent frustration (and over come it), programming is not for you.
In short, these are skills that most Americans lack, let alone those in the inner city. Can't help but wonder if Mr. Van Jones ever coded himself? I'll wager not.
Sounds good on the face of it, train your own people in preference to importing thousands on H-1B visas.
We’ll see how it turns out.