Who needs a senior developer?

This article about senior developers will make you think. Developers — here is the best WHY to quit your 9–5 job Software Engineering is dead-end career, employability decline at the age of 35 — says Bloomberg. https://medium.com/swlh/developers-here-is-the-most-convincing-reason-for-quitting-your-9-5-job-111801b7bd8 Written by Pen Magnet This article has […]

Programmierer gesucht

Hhm. Gibt es jetzt zu wenige Programmierer, so das Tim Cook schon auf Schüler und Studenten zurückgreifen muss… Apple-Chef: Vier Jahre an der Uni für Entwickler unnötig Tim Cook will junge Leute schneller in die IT holen. Aktuelle Bildungsansätze hält er für überholt. https://heise.de/-4420452 […]

Teach prisoners how to code?

Interesting article about US states that ban programming books in prisons. https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/aug/17/prisons-coding-ban/ Well, why not let them code. They want to socialize these people and have them find jobs.

Coding is not fun

Very interesting article on Quartz about coding in general. Coding is not “fun,” it’s technically and ethically complex https://qz.com/987170/coding-is-not-fun-its-technically-and-ethically-complex/ “[…] by expanding the labor pool, keeps industry ticking over and wages under control.” Shhh! Nobody needs to hear this.

Veterans Want to Code

Interesting article by Andrew Zaleski about retired or retiring military personnel that want to code. Thousands of Veterans Want to Learn to Code — But Can’t https://backchannel.com/thousands-of-veterans-want-to-learn-to-code-but-cant-7ed60c167a61 Yet another indication for blue collar coding? I think so.

Joe Average Programmer

Tony You wrote an article about average programmers. Programming Doesn’t Require Talent or Even Passion https://medium.com/@WordcorpGlobal/programming-doesnt-require-talent-or-even-passion-11422270e1e4#.9ehymbv1j Let’s hope the human resources people read this.

Blue-Collar Job Coding

Found this very interesting article on Wired. The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding https://www.wired.com/2017/02/programming-is-the-new-blue-collar-job/ Yep. I totally agree. Coding courses are everywhere.