Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
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Re: Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
#2Loved seeing them bring in celebrities outside of the tech world to share their experiences/passions for code.
Chris Bosh was a complete surprise to me but made me like him even more.
Re: Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
#3Loved seeing them bring in celebrities outside of the tech world to share their experiences/passions for code. Chris Bosh was a complete surprise to me but made me like him even more.
I agree. Not many young people know who Gabe Newell or Drew Houston is. But seeing big names like that that younger people are familiar with could lead to more interest in coding. Great video.
Re: Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
#4The gap between CS majors and software jobs is misleading. You don't need a CS degree to become a decent programmer.
Still, if there's such a shortage of good programmers (and I agree that there probably is) then why aren't we playing this to our advantage? A senior engineer can't afford a house in the Bay Area or New York, and our status is low-- we still work for managers; we're a defeated tribe in this way. Most of us don't have the autonomy to choose our tools or decide whether to use or replace old legacy code. Shouldn't our top priority, as a tribe, be to change this?
We should make programmer autonomy our major issue. http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/programmer-au... This will benefit us and the economy as a whole.
Then, after we've had this victory, we can work on increasing the total number of programmers.
Re: Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
#5I really wish people didn't spread this kind of message. Think job security guys! Come on!
Re: Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
#6It seems silly to me that a basic computer science ciriculum isn't being added to high school or before. In the same way you have to take basic biology, chemistry, and physics, a modern student needs at least a fundamental exposure to the basics of computing
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#7I've heard lot of people say that the best way to learn to code is to set out to solve a problem you're having.
I wonder if the global trend towards open solutions for problems will discourage people learning to code. I've been using computers for perhaps 15 years and I've only ever skirted around the edges of coding. I've learned a little regex and a tiny bit of bash scripting and I know how to edit a little php to get Wordpress to do what I want it to, but that's as much as I've needed to solve every computing problem I've encountered.
Wordpress is a pretty good example: there's now such a rich ecosystem of themes, plugins and hacks that you can get it to do some pretty amazing things without needing to actually write any code yourself.
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#8The gap between CS majors and software jobs is misleading. You don't need a CS degree to become a decent programmer. Still, if there's such a shortage of good programmers (and I agree that there probably is) then why aren't we playing this to our advantage? A senior engineer can't afford a house in the Bay Area or New York, and our status is low-- we still work for managers; we're a defeated tribe in this way. Most o…
How in any way would this benefit the economy as a whole?
Re: Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
#9I've heard lot of people say that the best way to learn to code is to set out to solve a problem you're having. I wonder if the global trend towards open solutions for problems will discourage people learning to code. I've been using computers for perhaps 15 years and I've only ever skirted around the edges of coding. I've learned a little regex and a tiny bit of bash scripting and I know how to edit a little php to…
Then you're thinking too small. Solve non-computing problems you're having! :)
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#10I was fortunate enough that the public elementary school I went to, had a full computer lab (in 1985); the public middle school and high school also did. And this was in a very poor part of the country. There's little question every school in America should have that; if my poor public schools were able to make it happen, anybody can.
I learned basic programming in middle school (turbo pascal!) and high school courtesy of those opportunities. I plan to give back throughout the rest of my life, to the education system I came from. If even one or two people per school did that, it would make a huge difference.