Re:How To Live The New American Dream
by noir_lord on Thursday May 09, 2013 @11:51AM
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I love stuff like codeacademy.
It gives people with even the remotest inkling of an interest in programming the opportunity to explore that interest in a hassle-free environment (much like those of who grew up in the 80's had with Speccies and C64's) and instant positive feedback is a great thing.
If however you think completing codeacademy courses makes you fit to program for a living you are dangerously (and expensively) insane.
Knowledge of a particular programming language in-depth is a tiny part of what makes you a competent programmer.
In fact once you have learnt one or two languages you can learn another pretty quickly (though mastery of the idioms can take a while).
However to me a "coder" and a programmer (software engineer/developer) are completely different beasts.
Personally I'm waiting for surgeonacademy always fancied having a go at a transplant and they do seem to spend a lot of time on the golf course!.
It gives people with even the remotest inkling of an interest in programming the opportunity to explore that interest in a hassle-free environment (much like those of who grew up in the 80's had with Speccies and C64's) and instant positive feedback is a great thing.
If however you think completing codeacademy courses makes you fit to program for a living you are dangerously (and expensively) insane.
Knowledge of a particular programming language in-depth is a tiny part of what makes you a competent programmer.
In fact once you have learnt one or two languages you can learn another pretty quickly (though mastery of the idioms can take a while).
However to me a "coder" and a programmer (software engineer/developer) are completely different beasts.
Personally I'm waiting for surgeonacademy always fancied having a go at a transplant and they do seem to spend a lot of time on the golf course!.