> The first counterargument is that industrial technologies come and go.
I graduated college in 1996. I had four language classes - C, Pascal, FORTRAN, and COBOL.
Out of those four C is still heavily used.
If someone graduated college 20 years ago and they were taught Java, and they stayed on the course as a Java developer, they would still have plenty of work today. If they learned how to use SQL Server 2003, Oracle or MySQL, they would know one of the three top databases today.
> Had she followed that advice in the 60s, she points out, her students would have spent their time studying JCL
That’s kind of irrelevant.
20 years ago Microsoft was king of the desktop, Unix was big in servers and Apple was a distant second when it came to seconds. In 2023, how much has changed?
> This is false. “The only way to improve at X is to do it” is the advice you give when you actually have no idea how to improve…
This is also false. I was an active fitness instructor for 8 years and my cardio was great and also was a weightlifter. I could teach a two hour master class and go hard without giving out of breath. The first time I decided to do an outdoor 5K on a whim, it took me 40 minutes and I felt like I was going to die. I had to do run specific training.
> Instead of substituting for a traditional degree, recruiters are calling bootcamps jokes
I’ve found BootCamp grads far better junior developers when I was in enterprise dev than CS grads.
> My Advanced Software Design Web
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
I graduated college in 1996. I had four language classes - C, Pascal, FORTRAN, and COBOL.
Out of those four C is still heavily used.
If someone graduated college 20 years ago and they were taught Java, and they stayed on the course as a Java developer, they would still have plenty of work today. If they learned how to use SQL Server 2003, Oracle or MySQL, they would know one of the three top databases today.
> Had she followed that advice in the 60s, she points out, her students would have spent their time studying JCL
That’s kind of irrelevant.
20 years ago Microsoft was king of the desktop, Unix was big in servers and Apple was a distant second when it came to seconds. In 2023, how much has changed?
> This is false. “The only way to improve at X is to do it” is the advice you give when you actually have no idea how to improve…
This is also false. I was an active fitness instructor for 8 years and my cardio was great and also was a weightlifter. I could teach a two hour master class and go hard without giving out of breath. The first time I decided to do an outdoor 5K on a whim, it took me 40 minutes and I felt like I was going to die. I had to do run specific training.
> Instead of substituting for a traditional degree, recruiters are calling bootcamps jokes
I’ve found BootCamp grads far better junior developers when I was in enterprise dev than CS grads.
> My Advanced Software Design Web
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”