Posted on 04/29/2015 7:26:19 AM PDT by Borges
Thank you for making mention of ‘Scratch’. I found the website for it and will explore it with my youngest son.
Oh no. I wrote some small stuff with it and I was not impressed. It didn’t look like a resume builder.
Credit goes to Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame, not me.
The basic skills required to create games are the same ones to be a successful software engineer.
I wrote my first game in high school stored on punch tape.
It takes decades to train a good software engineer and starting children out early can make all the difference.
Right now, finding good software engineers who are NOT working is almost impossible.
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