From: Wes Groleau <wwgrol@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: Computer Programming for Everybody?
Date: 1999/09/22
Date: 1999-09-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37E8DD13.AA81C767@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.HPP.3.93.990915162218.958A-100000@merle.acns.nwu.edu
> > Today's elementary students will all (well, 95%) need to be
> > comfortable with computers when they are adults. But only
> > (wild guess) 60% will need to be programmers.
>
> That's a pretty high proportion of programmers. I guess we'll have
> lots of unemployed programmers :-) Today in the USA, there are only about
> one-million people employed in software development (counting managers,
> tech-writers, etc.). This is in a workforce of about 190 million with
> population about 260 million.
Like I said, wild guess. But even today, probably one-third of the
people
who are not formally "software developers" do some kind of programming.
A friend of mine is a chemist, and does lots of it. Computers will
become
easier to use, resulting in less programming by the "uninitiated" but I
still
think that as more and more people become able to do programming, it
will be
harder and harder for a non-programmer to compete--even in a
non-programming
job.
But I still say under ten is too young for most kids to start doing
programming.
Again, my ten-year-old son, who beats me at chess and whose math skills
are in
the top 5% of fifth graders, is NOT ready for programming.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-10 0:00 Computer Programming for Everybody? Ted Dennison
1999-09-10 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Raymond Calande
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-12 0:00 ` mitch
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-13 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Mike Hall
1999-09-14 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
[not found] ` <Pine.HPP.3.93.990915162218.958A-100000@merle.acns.nwu.edu>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
[not found] ` <7ronav$shf@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
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