SOTU: Community Colleges, Employers To Train Workers For High-Paying Coding Jobs

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @01:57AM from the union-is-still-pretty-uniony dept.

theodp writes: Coding got a couple of shout-outs from the White House in Tuesday's State of the Union Address. "Thanks to Vice President Biden's great work to update our job training system," said President Obama (YouTube), "we're connecting community colleges with local employers to train workers to fill high-paying jobs like coding, and nursing, and robotics." And among the so-called "boats" in the new "River of Content" that the White House social media folks came up with to enhance the State of the Union is a card intended to be shared on Twitter & Facebook which reads, "Let's teach more Americans to code. (Even the President is learning!)." President Obama briefly addressed human spaceflight, saying, "I want Americans to win the race for the kinds of discoveries that unleash new jobs – converting sunlight into liquid fuel; creating revolutionary prosthetics, so that a veteran who gave his arms for his country can play catch with his kid; pushing out into the Solar System not just to visit, but to stay." He also called once more for action on climate change. Politifact has an annotated version of the transcript for more background information on Obama's statements, and FiveThirtyEight has a similar cheat sheet.

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Can we send his whole administration... by sideslash · 2015-01-21 02:26 · Score: -1, Flamebait

...out into the Solar System, not just to visit, but to stay? President Obama's arrogance and lawlessness is unprecedented in that office. He feels that the normal rules don't apply to him. The only way he can keep positive rapport with people is through these cynical and largely meaningless stunts like the "hour of code". His actual major accomplishments have been, and continue to be a disaster for the country.

I personally was in favor of Congress refusing him the "bully pulpit" of their hall for his SOTU address, and instead playing video recordings on a big screen of Senator Obama repeatedly saying that he would lack legal authority to change immigration law on his own as president. You know, since they lack the cohones to impeach him.