When I teach my students, I ask in the beginning, does anybody know any programming languages? Half a dozen maximum, Chinese guys. Who are all the rest, trying to get a master degree in computer science? Eventually I came to a conclusion: these are future PMs. They will never understand how computers work, and they don't care. Some of them will become managers (ok, I am connected with many on linkedin, so I know), some of them will have to learn Java and/or pretend to learn JavaScript (which is much trickier than Java, but they are clueless).
I remember once on zazona.com locals were complaining that foreigners come over and take the jobs from the veterans of computing. I asked them, guys, are not you interested in learning something new? The answer was: "you are racist!". Oh, am I?
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Date: 2021-02-09 04:32 am (UTC)Very good point.
When I teach my students, I ask in the beginning, does anybody know any programming languages? Half a dozen maximum, Chinese guys. Who are all the rest, trying to get a master degree in computer science? Eventually I came to a conclusion: these are future PMs. They will never understand how computers work, and they don't care. Some of them will become managers (ok, I am connected with many on linkedin, so I know), some of them will have to learn Java and/or pretend to learn JavaScript (which is much trickier than Java, but they are clueless).
I remember once on zazona.com locals were complaining that foreigners come over and take the jobs from the veterans of computing. I asked them, guys, are not you interested in learning something new? The answer was: "you are racist!". Oh, am I?