Jim Hurley wrote:
Thought some of you might be interested in this article from the NYT on
Computer Science as a major in today's world of technology and the
problems with off-shoring of programming jobs.
TECHNOLOGY | August 23, 2005
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/technology/23geeks.html?ex=1125460800&en=6b61cc74c14ba4af&ei=5070&emc=eta1>ATechie,
Absolutely, and More
By STEVE LOHR
For computer science students, expanding expertise beyond programming is
crucial to future job security as technology jobs move to India and China.
A reassuring read.
Makes me glad I never jumped on the bandwagon with commodity languages
like Java and VB. Anything that can be commoditized will be sent
overseas today, and done by robots tommorrow.
I don't know about the rest of you folks, but I spend more time doing
requirements analysis and design than coding. Those jobs can be
outsourced only at the publisher's peril: design work requires an
intimate understanding of not just the regional culture of the target
audience, but also the organizational culture. You have to directly
observe users in action, interview people at all levels of the
organization your software will support, and learn when to listen to
what they tell you and when to read between the lines to hear not what
they're able to articulate but what they really mean.
Software design is more about workflow than algorithms, more about
people than machines.
A tool like Rev is already doing most of the work that other companies
outsource: the bit-counting tedium of lower-level languages.
Us Rev devs ge get to focus on the people side of the business, which
for me is more enjoyable (when I was working in C I kept asking, "Why am
I typing this -- can't the machine do this for me?"), and not likely to
move offshore anytime soon (except perhaps with short-sighted companies
who prefer to jeopardize their viability by blurring the distinctions
between short-term savings and long-term ROI, and I try to avoid working
with companies that aren't ROI-driven anyway).
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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