"Learn To Code, Get a Job" According To CNN

An anonymous reader writes "CNN is running an opinion article that talks about Michael Bloomberg's taking part in CodeAdacemy's CodeYear program, which aims to teach average people to learn enough to work as a Software Developer by year end. I'm trying to not be elitist in judging this article and those involved, but I'm curious as to what /. thinks of this questionable plan."

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Ridiculous Assumption

[Nethemas the Great]

It is a ridiculous assumption to believe that the intellectual capacity of an "average" person is sufficient to write software let alone quality software. It is even more ridiculous to believe that you can rewire the "average" human mind inside of a year to be able to think in the logic and manner necessary to express and solve problems through source code. Normal people's brains just don't work that way and is just as unnatural and foreign if not more so than placing a modern day smart phone in the hands of your 90 year old grandma. It is something that takes years of basement dwelling to cultivate.