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

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

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 12, 2012 @01:33PM from the it's-just-that-easy dept.

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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Lean? by poet · 2012-01-12 13:37 · Score: 4, Funny

Don't we want all of our code lean?

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1. Re:Lean? by sunderland56 · 2012-01-12 13:45 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  No, it says lean-to code. As in coding while in a lean-to.
  
  Maybe CNN should lean to speak English?
2. Re:Lean? by stephanruby · 2012-01-12 13:49 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Lean to spel, get a job as a slasdot editor!
3. Re:Lean? by Ethanol-fueled · 2012-01-12 14:05 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It's a reference to Lean manufacturing, with the idea that anything more than a few lines of rudimentary Javascript is not value-added and therefore unnecessary for customer satisfaction.
  
  I can see the job interviews now:
  
  What's your alma mater?
  Codecademy.
  What projects have you worked on in the past?
  At my last gig, I wrote a program to determine if a number was even or odd...in only ten lines!
  Wow! So what can you bring to FizzBuzz industries as a software engineer?
  Fizzbuzz.
  Hired.
4. Re:Lean? by jhoegl · 2012-01-12 14:16 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Slashdots sandards are hi for that positron!
5. Re:Lean? by Monchanger · 2012-01-12 15:30 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Comments? What are those?
  It's the random fluff you put in your code so you can increase the linecount and show your eight bosses how productive you've been.
Here we go... by wbr1 · 2012-01-12 13:50 · Score: 4, Funny

main ()
{
printf )"Hello World! I am now a Software Developer!\n");
}

Congratulations, here is your certificate of completion.

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1. Re:Here we go... by wbr1 · 2012-01-12 14:02 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  No certificate for you until you figure out why that won't even compile.
  loop until realization(errors)==sarcasm
  
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2. Re:Here we go... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-12 14:08 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  It's because he spelled print wrong, what a putz.
Re:That's all we need by Shajenko42 · 2012-01-12 13:53 · Score: 4, Funny

Little Shop of Horrors teaches us that going to a dentist who loves being a dentist isn't necessarily a good thing...
Re:That's all we need by MightyYar · 2012-01-12 13:58 · Score: 4, Funny

Sadists become dentists, programming is for the masochists.

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Re:Whats the big deal? by Weezul · 2012-01-12 14:08 · Score: 5, Funny

There is an awful lot of need for javascript lackies so that real coders can do real work. bring em'. slap em' when they do badly.

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Re:Whats the big deal? by Nerdfest · 2012-01-12 14:33 · Score: 5, Funny

Mmmmmm, Tasty, tasty elitism. They do say that you are what you eat.
Oh, good. by Minwee · 2012-01-12 14:44 · Score: 4, Funny

At least thedailywtf.com will have an inexhaustible supply of new material once all of these people get exciting jobs in the fast-paced software industry.
Re:Whats the big deal? by TimMD909 · 2012-01-12 19:13 · Score: 5, Funny

"...in reality, all but one of the current browsers function in roughly the same manner where CSS is concerned. You can guess which one."
A shout out for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)!