Re:Google commits $1B in grants to train U.S. workers for hi...
by colemannugent on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:16PM
(#15461397)
>Do those apps that 14 year olds work on require an in depth understanding of how threads work?
I am constantly surprised that when other CS students in my classes have zero idea how anything beyond the particular language we're learning works. Even in higher skill-level classes that require a fair amount of proficiency with the language if you asked what the length of the pointer they just properly used was all you would get is blank stares.
Re:Google commits $1B in grants to train U.S. workers for hi...
by xfer on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:51PM
(#15461604)
> "how anything beyond the particular language we're learning works. "
and
> "if you asked what the length of the pointer they just properly used was all you would get is blank stares"
So what is it?
It's a computer science program, not learn a dozen language's quirks and implementation detail that you use for a single class to understand some concept.
The skillset of building a personal website, or even a website for your small business should be something anyone can do, and will in no way impact the overall salary of software engineers in the future.
Major companies will always need people who understand the computational sciences, as scale and complexity follow some of the same rules as entropy, in that they are always increasing.
Additionally, the reason for high salaries is not a lack of engineers, it is that top companies have decided that it is in their best interest to outbid each other for top talent. In parts of the midwest, where there is less competition, engineers are already paid 50k a year.