Please don't learn to code

Re:Please don't learn to code by primecommenter on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @05:55AM (#3975764)

"Can you explain to me how Michael Bloomberg would be better at his day to day job of leading the largest city in the USA if he woke up one morning as a crack Java coder?"

If anything should trickle down, it would be the joy and satisfaction of acquiring a basic competence.

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Re:Please don't learn to code by gaius on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @06:52AM (#3975938)

Or maybe he could found a company making trading software, amass a fortune, and get elected mayor of New York City...

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Re:Please don't learn to code by primecommenter on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @07:14AM (#3975984)

... and then profess to study that which his generational peers have foregone. If only we could all be mayors of NYC!

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