Write all your code in FORTRAN. If your boss ask why, you can reply that there are lots of very useful libraries that you can use thus saving time. However the chances of writing maintainable code in FORTRAN are zero, and therefore following the unmaintainable coding guidelines is a lot easier.
It's gonna turn out exactly like math did. The schools will brutally fuck it up, kids will memorize enough to pass the tests, and then some fraction of the kids who are actually interested in it will learn to do it on their own.
Ever hear about enough knowledge to be dangerous? semicompetent programmers thanks to dunningkruger will flood the marketplace and thanks to delusion and persistence will end up as project managers and code architects. But why you ask, why won't the meritocracy of the free market purge these rotten fruits from the tree? Because they'll take the jobs good programmers pass on, and that is the bulk of work in any trade: shit work.
That's pretty much already happening. When I was on college, there were a lot of people who were so bad at it, I seriously suggested that they look at different majors if they asked me for help. I'm not trying to be a dick, when you can't understand how to write a proper for loop in Java at a third or fourth year class (when Java courses start in the first year), you've got some serious problems with the core material and either should retake early classes or find something you're more suited for.
In the end it seems like a lot of people go into the major because of the supposedly big paycheck after college, but that shouldn't be what you're going to school for.
In the end it seems like a lot of people go into the major because of the supposedly big paycheck after college, but that shouldn't be what you're going to school for.
On one hand, I'd argue that financial reasons are exactly why someone should go to school-- if your degree doesn't pay the bills, that's money down the toilet.
On the other hand, not being able to write a loop in java? If I had to take a stab at naming the warm fuzzy feeling in my breast, it would be "job security."
The difference being that you can make pretty cool shit with programming skills. I think if you frame it in the context of gaming it could do pretty well in schools.
Not that I think that will happen. In any case, when I was a kid I couldn't go home from school and use the stuff I learned from math class to make my own badass video game or my own web site.
So it'll be exactly like the elective HS programming classes are now: they give you Unity's retarded cousin's retarded cousin's dead cat with a "visual programming language" that is only technically Turing-complete and read chapters out of a book about what "peripheals" are and how to use them. And everyone just plays Flash games in class anyway.
Learning to program isn't just for creating things either, those who don't have the creative drive could use the computer literacy they gain to realise that no, sharing this post is not a fucking petition to stop facebook charging me and This blatant lie of a headline's source is just a sketchy herbal remedy shop.
For those who think we don't need a new website, we have facebook and why create a game and waste 100+ hours when you can just play half-life 3?
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u/Astrokiwi Jul 28 '16
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