In the future, everyone is going to be a software engineer, but only a few will learn how to code.--Quartz
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The problem is no one has a clue how to actually teach everyone to code. ... the supply of labor in the US workforce still lags, and the gap is growing. Out of the 1.9 million college students awarded bachelor?s degrees from US colleges in 2014, only 55,367 students received computer science degrees, while only 1 in 10 high schools in the US currently offer computer science classes. A surge in qualified developers is unlikely on the way.
....But coding, at its most basic, is something millions of Americans already do every week. It?s called Microsoft Excel. The spreadsheet application, like WordPress, Visual Basic, and Salesforce, give anyone a simple way to program the sort of logical instructions computers can run?and that once required coding skills.
... It?s really just about logical thinking and analysis.?
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That is why there is less and less workforce participation and so many new jobs are McJobs -- the computers are managing the people and not the other way around as it should be.
It's not the computers fault -- a computer is better at doing repetitive simple logic and robotics are muscles that can work 24 hours a day -- their parts can be replaced as the wear out. A robot's retirement is without any benefits in the junkyard
