On 2022-08-22 00:17, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Not sure what good a CS degree is these days. Seems like all anybody
caress about today is “at least 3 years hands-on experience with xyz
and abc” to get hired for stuff.
I consider a CS degree as an engineer. Those who follow this path can
do things the rest of us cannot do like create parsers, compilers, and
interpreters. Am I wrong?
I'm a programmer. I do not have the skills of a CS degree holder. You
(David) can do lots of neat things that I cannot. I think your niche is
smaller if you want to do engineering class work.
I had a love/hate relationship with IT for a long time because I
struggled to find adequate W2 employment. I had to become a freelancer
to rise to my potential, and that could be a book.
I bet you could spend a couple months learning Kotlin, put up a website
and do freelance Kotlin development.
I have read articles that say freelancing will take over the world in
the future. As companies start to realize they only need a core of
employees supplemented by freelancers, then that will become the norm.
It has been my experience that small businesses mostly hire freelancers
and have no IT staff.
I read an article today that was saying how Google has been working
hard to replace Java in the Android ecosystem with Kotlin. I’m sure
Java will be with us a long time, but learning Kotlin could open some
doors in the not-too-distant future.
Five years later, Google is still all-in on Kotlin
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/18/five-years-later-google-is-still-all-in-on-kotlin/
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It’s been just over five years since Google first announced that it
would make Kotlin, the
statically typed language for the Java Virtual Machine first developed
by JetBrains, a first-
class language for writing Android apps at Google I/O 2017. Since
then, Google took this a
step further by making Kotlin its preferred language for writing
Android apps in 2019 — and
while plenty of developers still use Java, Kotlin is quickly becoming
the default way to build
apps for Google’s mobile operating system.
I suspect that when Google announces the first version of Android
written in Kotlin, it will open a huge demand for Kotlin programmers
with even 6 months of experience with it.
-David Schwartz
On Aug 21, 2022, at 7:08 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
<plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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On 2022-08-19 10:41, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
On Thu, 2022-08-18 at 15:52 -0700, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
wrote:
David,
You provide a bunch to think about.
What does this have to do with Linux? We are on a Linux list and I
would guess most are not going to retool.
I'm 66 and do not think I will retool, so I am looking at some
simple
things that might make my life better while we enter a period of
chaos.
I am a PHP programmer and I know less about Linux than I would like
to.
For me the opportunities have to be in the realm of LAMP/LEMP.
PHP is so ingrained that it will be around for decades. Eventually
it
will go the way of COBOL... AND COBOL is still around. I think a
person
could make a career being a COBOL developer.
So I think the question is what are the opportunities for the Linux
admins and the associated technologies?
What I'm personally doing is developing a Troubleshooters.Com [1]
HTML/CSS
subsite in
preparation to teach online HTML/CSS classes to people who:
1) Understand that HTML, DOM and CSS are the basis of web
presentation, regardless
of higher layer tools used,
2) Want a teacher instead of just taking a programmed online course,
3) Don't want to pay the price of coming to a face to face class.
Very nice!! Based on what I am reading and hearing I think there will
be continued demand for this type of learning. I think the
Universities will dry up. It might take a while. Looks like a year
at ASU is almost $13,000
https://admission.asu.edu/aid/resident-first-year [3] Who can afford
that?
I first looked at college in 1978 and that year it was $275 a semester
at the University of Arizona. I ended up going to junior college and
it was $100 my first semester the spring of 1979.
By 1990 UofA was just over $1000 a semester. 4 times what it was just
12 years prior.
When I was first exposed to programming in 1983 a bachelor's degree
was required to be a programmer. I think that requirement is long
gone. I think employers are looking for just skills.
I think self study is big today. And if the economy does crash I'm
thinking that the next generation of programmers will be self thought
and might just be more inclined to be using Linux.
If what I am hearing and reading is that the economy is going to crash
and inflation is going to stay at 10% for the next 10 years, I think
the world will look and feel a lot different 10 or 12 years from now.
So doing what you are doing, Steve, should pay dividends for years.
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