Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste
by dagw on Thursday February 07, 2019 @04:26AM
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Sweden does this. You can either go to university and get a Computer Science or Computer Engineering degree in 3-5 years or go to vocational school and get a programming diploma in 1-2 years.
Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste
by baroffoos on Thursday February 07, 2019 @12:30AM
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We already do. Its called junior web development. Which most of the time just involves installing wordpress plugins.
Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste
by stereographic on Thursday February 07, 2019 @08:45AM
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The college I went to in Eastern Canada does this, I'm employed after a two year diploma based program, rather than a 4 year CS degree
There are a lot of people who can or could stitch together existing libraries to accomplish results. There are a lot fewer people (than are currently participating) who have any business writing those libraries in the first place.
My hope is that if we just acknowledged the difference in these two problem domains we might get more quality over quantity in the places where it really matters.