I'm 45 and work as a coder doing some pretty cool things. I know a fair number of others. Yeah, we make more than 22 year olds fresh out of school, a lot more than those overseas, but we're worth it. A lot of jobs can be done overseas. A lot can't, at least not well. Not a knock against new grads or foreign workers. It's just that experience can easily more than triple your performance and that the communication and coordination overhead dissipates a lot of the savings of going overseas.
If you can do a job better than 2 US newbies or 4 foreign newbies there's work to be had.
Until about 12 or so, most kids lack the needed symbolic processing abilities to do "normal" programming. I do a lot of work at my kids school, and have found that they can learn programming if you make it "concrete". In particular, visual programming paradigms, or programming a "real world" object. Check out.
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I'm 45 and work as a coder doing some pretty cool things. I know a fair number of others. Yeah, we make more than 22 year olds fresh out of school, a lot more than those overseas, but we're worth it. A lot of jobs can be done overseas. A lot can't, at least not well. Not a knock against new grads or foreign workers. It's just that experience can easily more than triple your performance and that the communication and coordination overhead dissipates a lot of the savings of going overseas.
If you can do a job better than 2 US newbies or 4 foreign newbies there's work to be had.