Posted on 01/01/2020 5:58:57 PM PST by conservative98
Maybe old Joe should give that advice to learn to code to his useless crackhead son Hunter
There are miners in West Virginia and other states that are the fourth generation of their families in mining. Learn to code?
Coal Workers will be retrained in how to code!
We need more H1-B Visas for foreign coders!
For later
And telling them to learn to code, and simultaneously letting H1Bs replace US tech workers. Idiotic
It is the 21st century equivalent of “Let them eat cake”.
well, i SUPPOSE it’s possible that those hundreds of thousands of displaced coal miners could always learn to code ... learn to write code for the aerospace industry, the medical industry, and other similar non-critical industries not terribly sensitive to a few software bugs here and there by novice coders with zero education in physics, aerodynamics, biomechanics, organic chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, etc. ... NAAAAAAAAAAAA
“Learn to code? Ha! To excel, heck even to have modest success and anything resembling job satisfaction in software development you have to have the knack. Training can only take you so far. If you don’t have “it” you can’t learn it. Development is a creative endeavor. Authoring software is similar to working on a commissioned piece of art. There are guidelines to follow, constraints, but it is still a creative act.”
totally. As a paid teaching assistant earning my way towards a Masters Degree in Computer Science, I *TAUGHT* undergraduate beginning coding, and i could easily divide the students in all of my classes into three categories:
1. Those that would NEVER get it, no matter what. (about 50% of the total)
2. Those that could get it good enough to pass the tests, but who would never be proficient coders. (about 45% of the total)
3. Those to whom computer languages and computer programming was a revelation, and to whom i ascribed as having what i call the “programming gene” (about 5% of the total)
As to myself, as an undergraduate taking two years of general engineering courses prior to picking an engineering specialty, one of the classes was beginning FORTRAN, and to me, that course was truly an epiphany, and at the end of the two years i switched my major to Computer Science and have never looked back since.
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