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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
#142I really hope that barely-disguised copy of an LCD sound system song in there involved royalties being paid to the band.
Re: Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not saying that a degree is not important! I'm just saying that just being a CS major does not make one a great programmer and likewise, a great programmer need not be a CS major. I believe a history major can become a great programmer...as said in the video, learning how to program just takes determination. I was an econ major and learned html/css in a few short weeks pretty darn well. At least enough to land m…
> I'm just saying that just being a CS major does not make one a great programmer and likewise, a great programmer need not be a CS major. I'm emphatically not saying this, I'm saying that a degree is good for employment. Many places will outright refuse to hire people without at least a BA in computer science (or computer engineering, I guess? I am not aware of the related fields). Thankfully, investors care more ab…
Your first statement was that you need a degree to get a job. Having a degree gives you access to more jobs, but you can get a job just fine without a degree.
Re: Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
#144This is all well and great, and my comment is meant in no way to belittle these efforts.
What good programmers have a lot of, though, is self-discipline, initiative, and patience. If we can teach kids those core skills, they can use them to learn programming later or excel in any other profession they choose.
Re: Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
#145I'm a manager. I can read code (PHP and C#) to some extent, but I can't code anything. I tried to learn it several times, but the syntax and all its curly braces were simply too complex to me. A bit frustrated, I decided to move one step up in the stack and tried to understand software at a "macro level", architecture, paradigms etc. I wanted to be able to make IT decisions based on concepts I found easier to grasp a…
If you still want to learn how to code, try with different languages. Python is a favourite for people starting out with programming, for example.
Re: Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fred George is interesting on this - see Programmer Anarchy. My view (and yes I am working up a blog post) is 1. Coding is the equivalent of literacy after 1451 (Gutenberg). 2. in say, one generation, any company not having literate people at all levels of the organisation, and not having then changed how they work at a fundamental level to take advantage of these programmers/business people will be at as severe a co…
I humbly disagree. Lets focus on one point. Literacy facilitated efficient information exchange. Likewise programming facilitated efficient information exchange. But, not everybody needed to program the Internet for this advantage. I think you are confusing a personal advantage and societal advantage. Certainly, we need programers but I am uncertain if everybody needs to be a programmer. I work a full-time software j…
lack of US PhDs? We already produce way more PhDs than the economy can absorb; if anything we should either produce less PhDs or create a better job market for them.
Re: Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
#147I really hope that barely-disguised copy of an LCD sound system song in there involved royalties being paid to the band.
It's turtles all the way down. I love LCD, but here are examples of things James Murphy lifted:
the fall telephone thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEOtckaZtLg#t=0m36s pretty distinctive way to say "i'm tapped" used in movement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6MIChyCBAU#t=0m43s
in general his vocal style and delivery alternate between mark e smith from the fall and brian eno. really not a bad thing in my book, but still not entirely original.
homosapien by peter shelley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HwmO_GZfzI sounds like the basis of north american scum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmm14g4cAFc
there's also the more than passing similarity between somebody's calling me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRCAuao67F4 and iggy pop's nightclubbing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3OaMZojJRg
all i want http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6BYCcy5aeo is pretty much bowie's heroes.
Re: Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
#148I think people are shifting away from the point of the video and that's fine, and I don't mean to be "that" guy, but it is important to realize what these accomplished programmers are trying to say through the video. If you listen carefully, most of the interviewees are simply attesting to Steve Jobs' quote at the beginning: "Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer...because it teaches you ho…
"Zuck, Gates, Dorsey, Houston, etc. are all encouraging people to learn to code for this reason"
Certainly the self serving reason for the push can't be overlooked. The more people that are pushed into coding the more of a chance that Zuck/Dorsey/Houston can find a superstar to hire.
I'm sure in any industry (medical research as only one example) the people in that industry would love if more young people took a shining to what they do. Then they would have more to pick from. Sports works the same way. If you get a bunch of people interested in football out of the funnel comes some superstars and you have an entire industry.
Re: Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
I humbly disagree. Lets focus on one point. Literacy facilitated efficient information exchange. Likewise programming facilitated efficient information exchange. But, not everybody needed to program the Internet for this advantage. I think you are confusing a personal advantage and societal advantage. Certainly, we need programers but I am uncertain if everybody needs to be a programmer. I work a full-time software j…
Programming enables automation of your domain-specific knowledge. Animators who could program gave us CG movies. Musicians who could program gave us software music composition tools. Would garbage collectors who could program give us robots to do parts of their jobs? Or apps to communicate real-time problems? Or public education websites? I think it very likely. Any field -- any field at all! -- that can benefit from…
Absolutely !
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not about user facing JavaScript apps. It's about adding another tool to the mental toolbox. Calculus, statistics, physics simulations - all of these will be of use in a persons career, yes, but like you I think that is not important. What is utterly important is that the most expressive and flexible tool in the mental toolbox for two hundred years is put in the hands of as many human beings as possible. I want…
It sounds like you think all scientists should learn how to code. I am certain that there are many people who rarely use calculus and physics simulations in their work, and who would never need to program even if they knew how.
I don't think I have ever used my Secondary School chemistry, or my knowledge of the biology of frogs.
But that does not mean learning those was useless - either to make me a more rounded person, or to pass me through a filter so that those who do want to contribute to society through chemistry actually discover their interests
School is a process for finding and educating those who will invent the next 100 years, and persuading the rest of us that we should support them.