Mayor Bloomberg Will Learn How To Write Code In 2012

Re:Mayor Bloomberg Will Learn How To Write Code In 2012 by simondlr on Friday January 06, 2012 @03:48PM (#3434966)

This is an interesting point and one I haven't thought of like this. The past year, I kept telling people to start learning to program, because there will be an unprecedented increase in demand for programmers and knowing how to program (even just a little bit) will be greatly beneficial no matter in what line of life you are in.

But can it come to the point where if you can't code, you get left behind? It might not be so farfetched.

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Re:Mayor Bloomberg Will Learn How To Write Code In 2012 by candre717 on Friday January 06, 2012 @05:29PM (#3435373)

Or, the more people who can code, the less valuable the skill? Meh, or not.

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Re:Mayor Bloomberg Will Learn How To Write Code In 2012 by rsolari on Friday January 06, 2012 @05:47PM (#3435437)

Maybe it's not supply & demand, but a network effect:

For reading, I would argue the ability to read become more valuable as the literacy rate increases, as society starts to run on the written word.

Perhaps computer literacy is the same.

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Re:Mayor Bloomberg Will Learn How To Write Code In 2012 by candre717 on Saturday January 07, 2012 @09:07AM (#3437022)

That's interesting. When would you use a supply & demand model versus network effects to explain a trend?

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Re:Mayor Bloomberg Will Learn How To Write Code In 2012 by jarin on Friday January 06, 2012 @08:11PM (#3435790)

The more people who can code, the more demand there will be for advanced training from experienced coders. The hackers of today will be the teachers of tomorrow :)

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