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Kamala Harris, campaigning in Iowa, tells 'em to 'learn to code'
American Thinker ^ | Oct 9, 2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 10/09/2019 8:20:36 PM PDT by upchuck

California presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris has been campaigning in Iowa and apparently been telling the local poli-sci majors to "learn to code...."

The scene is a beauty parlor, so it may well be that she told one of its Millennial denizens upset at her low-skill job after graduating from college with a useless major to learn code if she wants a better-paying job.

The problem, of course, is that it's a dismissive sort of advice to throw out to someone who might just be unsuited to learning code and, in any case, clearly had dreams of doing something else...

If you had just learned to code, you wouldn't have this lousy job, she seems to be saying. Don't ask me to create an economy with jobs for everyone, because I have no idea.

Which she doesn't. And all of that goes to show just how unsuited she is to the presidency.

Soon enough, Harris will be out of the race, and then the chain can continue: look forward to Harris being told to code when she's out on her ear.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: bloggers; california; cmoniwannalayaharris; horizontalharris; hotlipsharris; india; iowa; isshealegalcandidate; jamaica; kamalaharris; learntocode; notnaturalborn; notqualified; sleepingherway2top; williebrownsharlot
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To: upchuck

Better to get a job further up the food chain than writing code which will just be outsourced. Learn skills that are less likely in the mid-term to be mechanized, automated or outsourced.


41 posted on 10/09/2019 10:10:08 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

No, don’t “learn to code.” I’ve been in software since 1980, the days of writing FORTRAN code on punch cards. If you don’t have a knack, a calling to code, don’t bother. At best you’ll only ever be a mediocre programmer. The developers that stand out, that get the good jobs, that actually enjoy what they are doing... They didn’t just learn to code because that’s what you do. They picked up coding because it interested them. They fool around with computers and coding at home in their spare time. If that’s not you, you’re not going to be great, be a standout in the field. Sure, you can be a 9 to 5 code monkey and slog through assignments, but you won’t be a superstar. Software development is a lot like commissioning a piece of art. It takes creativity, inherent skill, knowledge (academic and experience), and an appreciation of the field of software design and architecture. A useful metaphor relates to cooking. There are a lot of line cooks out there turning out perfectly acceptable meals. There are not so many master chefs putting together memorable dining experiences.


42 posted on 10/09/2019 10:23:47 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: pepsi_junkie

My 31-year-old daughter is currently in a 6-month coding camp and killing it. She’s always been good at languages though. I’m just glad she finally found a good career path.


43 posted on 10/09/2019 10:42:04 PM PDT by Prince of Space (UNBORN LIVES MATTER!)
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To: upchuck

Kamala Harris to Iowans: “Learn to screw.”


44 posted on 10/09/2019 11:45:40 PM PDT by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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To: ThunderSleeps
If you don’t have a knack, a calling to code, don’t bother. At best you’ll only ever be a mediocre programmer. The developers that stand out, that get the good jobs, that actually enjoy what they are doing...

Spot-on assessment of real programmers! I'm a long-time programmer, also having done FORTRAN in the 1970s (hated punch cards, especially when the ink was faint or when dropping a stack on the floor). Anyway, I had to deal with training mediocre programmers who switched professions to get the better pay in computer work.

One time I'm in a terminal room around 1980 (we had to wait turns to use time-sharing terminals, coding our work at our desks with pencil and paper before punching it in at a terminal) with some co-workers entering COBOL code. A female mediocre coder suddenly yelled out my name and said "Oh no, I'm missing my period!". All eyes turned to me as I turned red. Her program failed to compile because COBOL wants sentences to end with periods. My buddies gave me a bad time, laughing their heads off. She never did advance much with programming, didn't have the knack for it.

45 posted on 10/10/2019 12:24:35 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: upchuck

I wonder if she literally told someone to learn to code. She must be too stupid to realize that has become a snarky expression.


46 posted on 10/10/2019 2:21:16 AM PDT by odawg
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To: upchuck

Learn to blow.


47 posted on 10/10/2019 2:28:48 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

Nowadays, you simply need to be Indian and accept low pay to get the job.


48 posted on 10/10/2019 3:47:04 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Prince of Space

Sadly she’ll find the doors closed unless she’s Indian and willing to work for Indian rates.


49 posted on 10/10/2019 3:48:17 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: pepsi_junkie
cousin's daughter (so that makes her my first cousin once removed?

Yes. Maybe this information will help you on Trivia Night some time ;-).

50 posted on 10/10/2019 3:52:20 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Self-esteem has completely obliterated self-respect as a desideratum." ~Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: W.

She must have used her mouth as code in her office under Willie browns desk


51 posted on 10/10/2019 3:57:49 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: laweeks

Read this! (..-. ..- -.-. -.-.) ( -.—. -— ..-)


52 posted on 10/10/2019 4:21:43 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: Farmer Dean

A lot of potential PHBs.


53 posted on 10/10/2019 5:14:00 AM PDT by wally_bert (Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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To: upchuck

It’s not coding, it’s writing computer programs, something that not everyone is capable of, and it’s not White Heterosexual Patriarchical males who are preventing the poor oppressed from being able to understand how programs work.


54 posted on 10/10/2019 5:38:34 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: upchuck

For once in her life Willie’s squeeze is 100% right.

And the blowback from this is going to be the final nail in her coffin.


55 posted on 10/10/2019 5:53:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: roadcat
One time I'm in a terminal room around 1980 (we had to wait turns to use time-sharing terminals, coding our work at our desks with pencil and paper before punching it in at a terminal) with some co-workers entering COBOL code. A female mediocre coder suddenly yelled out my name and said "Oh no, I'm missing my period!". All eyes turned to me as I turned red. Her program failed to compile because COBOL wants sentences to end with periods. My buddies gave me a bad time, laughing their heads off. She never did advance much with programming, didn't have the knack for it.

In my days of COBOL programming those kinds of people usually became managers. Anything to get their fingers away from the terminal keyboard.

To continue your post, you also have to be willing to re-invent yourself. I've been a software engineer for 32 years (taught myself just about every single IT job - whatever they needed), and worked my way into cloud computing. Cool stuff.

56 posted on 10/10/2019 5:58:13 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
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To: upchuck

Learn to code or ride the coat-tails of an influential black democrat politician who will give you high paying do-nothing government jobs in return for sex.

It worked for Khlamidia Harris, it can work for you!


57 posted on 10/10/2019 6:01:03 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("Trump Makes One Believe For A Moment In The American Dream Again" NY Times 1987)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

You’re graphic is perfect. Thanks!


58 posted on 10/10/2019 6:58:19 AM PDT by upchuck (Democraps say the President is out of control. They mean the President of out of THEIR control.)
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To: Prince of Space

I remember back in the late 80s / early 90s that all the wise gurus were predicting that computer programming was going to be the big thing that finally brought females into science careers in numbers rivaling males. It didn’t. There are plenty of female programmers, outstanding ones in fact, but it’s still a field dominated by men in my experience. Perhaps the predictions of the wise men of those bygone decades are finally starting to come true. Time will tell.


59 posted on 10/10/2019 7:08:13 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Rastus

Yep. It was perfectly OK to tell the “deplorables” learn to code.


60 posted on 10/10/2019 3:12:00 PM PDT by greeneyes
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