This. I have been wondering whether they have been trying to setup the future for big corporations to gain cheaper labor. They can later claim it was intended all along to help both the H1B problem and keeping America as the top innovation country.
Except they forget programming isn't for everybody. People who are genuinely interested in programming will learn it.
I suspect part of the problem are the cute and idiot-friendly logic games presented with a glossy UI for the general population. They suspect that's what real programming is like. Then someone tells them about the WYSIWYG/drag-drop in C# and other languages, and they jump all over that. Everything being made into a game to introduce people into a field isn't helping either. Kids these days already easily bored from technology bombardment. But the defense will always be "so you don't want to get kids introduced and excited into a STEM field?"
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who ultimately wants more cheap labor..
This. I have been wondering whether they have been trying to setup the future for big corporations to gain cheaper labor. They can later claim it was intended all along to help both the H1B problem and keeping America as the top innovation country.
Except they forget programming isn't for everybody. People who are genuinely interested in programming will learn it.
I suspect part of the problem are the cute and idiot-friendly logic games presented with a glossy UI for the general population. They suspect that's what real programming is like. Then someone tells them about the WYSIWYG/drag-drop in C# and other languages, and they jump all over that. Everything being made into a game to introduce people into a field isn't helping either. Kids these days already easily bored from technology bombardment. But the defense will always be "so you don't want to get kids introduced and excited into a STEM field?"