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> 3 months: How long it takes a dedicated beginner to learn the skills to qualify for computing and web development jobs. I'm genuinely curious as to how many people here, who either program or hire programmers, will say that the above is a true statement.
> 3 months: How long it takes a dedicated beginner to learn the skills to qualify for computing and web development jobs. I'm genuinely curious as to how many people here, who either program or hire programmers, will say that the above is a true statement.
You are viewing the world from a very tiny bubble.
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I actually asked their CEO about this on PH. Building websites != engineering, and we need more of the latter. I do think there's a place for skills-based learning to take up some of the slack, but simply rehashing the same Rails/JS tutorials isn't going to cut it unfortunately.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like there's much resources online that say "Learn How to Become a Software Engineer!" without costing you three/four years of extra education and a sizeable sum of money. I'm learning how to program at the moment alongside my degree, and almost all the resources I've seen online are oriented towards web development; consequentially, that's what I'm learning, even though I'd much rather…
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Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like there's much resources online that say "Learn How to Become a Software Engineer!" without costing you three/four years of extra education and a sizeable sum of money. I'm learning how to program at the moment alongside my degree, and almost all the resources I've seen online are oriented towards web development; consequentially, that's what I'm learning, even though I'd much rather…
jlees has a good suggestion. I wanted to add Udacity ( https://www.udacity.com/courses#!/all ). For example, the course 'Artificial Intelligence for Robotics' ( https://www.udacity.com/course/cs373 ) may be what you're looking for. I don't know your current skill level for programming nor understanding of mathematics (stats and probability) and computer science, but the course can be self-paced, which can make it gre…
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Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like there's much resources online that say "Learn How to Become a Software Engineer!" without costing you three/four years of extra education and a sizeable sum of money. I'm learning how to program at the moment alongside my degree, and almost all the resources I've seen online are oriented towards web development; consequentially, that's what I'm learning, even though I'd much rather…
I'd say the closest things would be actual honest-to-goodness academic courses online, e.g Coursera/MIT/etc computer science tracks.
There once was an island with a population of 100 dogs. Every day a plane flew overhead and dropped 95 bones onto the island. It was a dog paradise, except for the fact that every day 5 dogs went hungry. Hearing about the problem, a group of social scientists was sent to assess the situation and recommend remedies. The social scientists ran a series of regressions and determined that bonelessness in the dog populatio…
Meh. While entertaining, this is a fallacious allegory. This fails to consider the divisibility of bones, some dogs getting more than one bone or the fact that in real life scenarios that the number of bones can fluctuate (more or fewer bones). Furthermore, the site states that there are 1 million unclaimed bones. While I won't argue either in favor of or against that figure, but assuming there are unclaimed bones, y…
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Meh. While entertaining, this is a fallacious allegory. This fails to consider the divisibility of bones, some dogs getting more than one bone or the fact that in real life scenarios that the number of bones can fluctuate (more or fewer bones). Furthermore, the site states that there are 1 million unclaimed bones. While I won't argue either in favor of or against that figure, but assuming there are unclaimed bones, y…
You misunderstand the nature of the implicit argument. The allegory doesn't have to address the intricacies of bone accounting or the fantasies of bone accountants because the story it describes has already played out countless times in countless economic sectors with one overwhelmingly favored result. The burden of proof lies squarely on the shoulders of the person who believes that this time the story will have a d…
Currently the overall number of programmers/computer scientists/coders steadily increases and still there is a large shortage of workforce in these areas.
Please provide citations to support that 'countless economic sectors/countless times' claim.
> 3 months: How long it takes a dedicated beginner to learn the skills to qualify for computing and web development jobs. I'm genuinely curious as to how many people here, who either program or hire programmers, will say that the above is a true statement.
This doesn't make the "3 month" claim worthless, but it does make it hard to fit into a sound bite.
I should know: I'm the co-founder and CEO of the Thinkful, Codecademy's other online partner in ReskillUSA.
Our company has hired many of our own students and helped hundreds of others successfully make the transition to truly job-ready engineer.
I've also spent the last decade as a professional software engineer, and another five years before that writing software. I'm 33 years old. After coding for half my life I feel I know less than half the craft.