[meadsjn]

Go into IT. Six figures, no college.

That's exactly why so much of American IT is being outsourced to other countries.

Illiterate jack-leg coders killed this industry.

[cuban leaf]

My strength was learning to code correctly. I never did “spaghetti code”. It’s why I was allowed to completely rewrite some huge programs. One went from over 10,000 lines to less than 6,000 and in the process I found four defects that had been frustrating the company for years.

Someone who has been taught how to THINK correctly, regarding code, brings a lot of extra value. There are a lot of hacks.

Problem is, you gotta get a job to get a track record.

[cuban leaf]

That’s exactly why so much of American IT is being outsourced to other countries.

Illiterate jack-leg coders killed this industry.

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College doesn’t make you literate, especially in this day and age. I’m old enough to come from an era where you left high school quite literate. And my programming school (Boeing Computer Services) didn’t just teach me the mechanics of coding. They taught me how to do it right. Heck, they even had a class in interpersonal communication in the office environment. And having been through a lot of interpersonal communication courses since then, I’m surprised how robust it was. I use it’s ideas to this day.