Coding will not save you

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Post by atilev » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 12:45 AM UTC

Re: Coding will not save you

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Post by dottrap » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 1:06 AM UTC

I don't think the perceived problem actually exists.

I have never heard anybody claim coding will solve the world's problems. Nor does there seem to be a statistical change in the number of Americans entering science and engineering. The number is flat a 5% of the population.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224823/Science_and_e...

And we have too many lawyers; we don't need more. Too many law school graduates can't find jobs that pays enough to offset their tuition costs (debt, opportunity costs). That means there is too much supply.

http://ideas.time.com/2013/03/11/just-how-bad-off-are-law-sc...

Re: Coding will not save you

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Post by damianball » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 2:25 AM UTC

dottrap wrote: post #2

I don't think the perceived problem actually exists. I have never heard anybody claim coding will solve the world's problems. Nor does there seem to be a statistical change in the number of Americans entering science and engineering. The number is flat a 5% of the population. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224823/Science_and_e... And we have too many lawyers; we don't need more. Too many law school graduates…

I agree with dottrap. Whenever I encourage someone to learn a programming language, it is usually geared toward R or Matlab or some generic scripting language. Anything to give them more control/ability to process the data they are working with. Computers are powerful tools, but rarely do I hear people arguing everyone needs to be a software engineer or a computer scientist.