Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours

Re:Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons C... by dave_sullivan on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @12:52AM (#2915390)

I've heard this argument in a variety of professions--that an influx of new talent is going to destroy things for the incumbents. The part people don't get, is that the reason these fields become exciting is because demand is widely expected to increase and therefore more people take that as a signal to get into the field.

So, millions of people are going to get into programming as demand increases by the equivalent supply of millions of people. Prices, if anything, will stay the same or go up. And yet still, there is a wide difference in wages between 1st world and 2nd, 3rd world devs. As far as I can tell, there isn't a particular difference in talent, so I suppose there's some artificiality built in there.

In any case, I think things like code academy are great, I'd urge more people to learn to program, it's a great skill.

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Re:Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons C... by egiva on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @04:31AM (#2915848)

I hope more people do follow those signals and get into the field!

The challenged faced in other countries (such as Spain where I live) is that it's easier than ever to pump highly qualified programmers and engineers out of state-sponsored colleges, but businesses rely on software and technology from other countries (like the US) - hence there's not the same level of a national job market demanding these skills. Too much supply, so to say.

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