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I think a major reason for this is commoditizing programming for the public. Initiatives like everyone should learn to code and courses that promise you to become a programmer in 3 months do harm more than good.
Programming requires years of hard work and training and only those who are willing to give it all they have should become reall programmers. -
@rantsauce agreed again I would be wrong person to discourage anyone not to take up programming. Myself being from electrical background and no schooling of basics.
But it is just that some might not actually want to be in software and is doing development.. that scares me.
How would you feel if doctor treating you didn't like his job ? Or was never had any interest in becoming one..
Software Development should be considered a serious job not like shown on WIX. -
It's normal, most CS majors graduating from a regular college would hardly know what GitHub is, most of them just want the degree to become office slugs and the workforce and companies allow it because they relate 'hours being present' with 'productive hours'.
I hate the archaic notion that a degree makes you competent at something, specially when talking about CS, college is just an expensive and slow transaction for a piece of paper. Once I get mine I'll give it to my parents, they'll appreciate that piece of dead tree more than I would. -
@JKyll I essentially spent £40,000 on ending up a worse programmer
Not that I lost knowledge at university, more just that I didn't gain as much as I would have if I'd been working during those 4yrs instead
So if I hadn't have gone to uni, not only would I be a better developer, but I'd also have £120,000 more (no £40k debt, plus 4yrs of £20k, which is a low estimated average) -
@no0bdeveloper I feel this rant is only becoming more and more relevant.
Rant on anti devs.
I helped my friend crack a fairly simple hackerank. The questionnaire was basic JavaScript questions and little on CSS selectors nth child. The test is finished in half hour instead of 75 mins.
5 months later. He calls again and ask if he can get the question solutions (code snippets). I didn't have those but curious why he needed it. He says he wants to put that solutions to Github. So would look on resume. This is not even a project just code snippet with a for loop. He just wants any codebase to upload to his profile.
My ears are bleeding. It makes me sad that some people had to do Masters in computer science purely out of societal pressure. Just because software development is booming field a lot of folks who are not genuinely interested in development are being forced into the industry.
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forced into development