Another problem is that the environment that is being setup for future programmers/techies is incredibly discouraging. I guess wanting to become a programmer will be frowned upon as a career decision early in life, like wanting to become a musician. Hence discouraging those who may have natural talents in programming.
Parent: "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Kid: "A programmer."
Parent to self: "Oh brother. You're on your own kid."
in 1995 was taking Computer Science as his major, as was I. His parents owned a consulting company and he wanted to make the big bucks. Every assignment in C our professor would assign us would be twice as much work for me as my roommate would leech off me for answers, turning me into an unpaid full-time tutor. Of course, after 2 weeks of this I told him I'm not going to help him with anything else as he absorbed nothing in class and knew nothing about computers what-so-ever. Of course, when it comes to these types of people, they're just oblivious to how much they leech off others to get ahead. It was hard to work with people in the classes I was in because many of them didn't have a handle on basic concepts. I'm glad to hear things are tapering off a bit as I need to go back and finish off my degree.
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Another problem is that the environment that is being setup for future programmers/techies is incredibly discouraging. I guess wanting to become a programmer will be frowned upon as a career decision early in life, like wanting to become a musician. Hence discouraging those who may have natural talents in programming.
Parent: "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Kid: "A programmer."
Parent to self: "Oh brother. You're on your own kid."
in 1995 was taking Computer Science as his major, as was I. His parents owned a consulting company and he wanted to make the big bucks. Every assignment in C our professor would assign us would be twice as much work for me as my roommate would leech off me for answers, turning me into an unpaid full-time tutor. Of course, after 2 weeks of this I told him I'm not going to help him with anything else as he absorbed nothing in class and knew nothing about computers what-so-ever. Of course, when it comes to these types of people, they're just oblivious to how much they leech off others to get ahead. It was hard to work with people in the classes I was in because many of them didn't have a handle on basic concepts. I'm glad to hear things are tapering off a bit as I need to go back and finish off my degree.