>>Did this even happen? I cannot find any articles in which miners were told to learn to code.
Then I guess you really didn't look to hard:
https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/47...
snip:
"During a rally yesterday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke to a crowd in Derry, N.H., a town that many miners call home. He acknowledged the economic setbacks and job insecurity that coal miners face these days, and gave them some advice: learn to code."
Re:From Prison to Programming
by lostboomerang on Saturday September 03, 2022 @12:21PM
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Just to add a small sample of mainstream media (Wired, NYT, NPR) running similar articles:
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/10900807581260759...
Re:From Prison to Programming
by paulpauper on Saturday September 03, 2022 @01:09PM
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But that came later .I am referring 2017 when this became a meme. Also Biden is not a journalist.
Didn't even know Joe Biden did it, but Hillary Clinton did it too and it's what spawned the "#learn2code" hashtag on Twitter. It just got nastier from there.
Re:From Prison to Programming
by RickWolter on Saturday September 03, 2022 @01:30PM
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coincidentally at Underdog Devs we took in some of the students from that failed project. It was called Mined Mines. A few still made it later and became software devs, but the majority didnt work out.
Did this even happen? I cannot find any articles in which miners were told to learn to code. I think instead those miners were offered vocational training, which included coding. This was in 2017.
maybe this is what they were talking about
https://venturebeat.com/entrepreneur/dev-bootcamp-shuttering...