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re: How important is it going to be for a kid born in 2018 to learn coding?
Posted on 7/9/18 at 2:32 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Posted on 7/9/18 at 2:32 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
1. Coding is like farming. 1% or less of the population creates what 99% consumes.
2. The majority of code being written right now is being written in languages that didn't exist 20 years ago so learning anything as a child will probably be obsolete by the time the kid is grown
2. The majority of code being written right now is being written in languages that didn't exist 20 years ago so learning anything as a child will probably be obsolete by the time the kid is grown
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Posted on 7/9/18 at 2:53 pm to Huey Lewis
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1. Coding is like farming. 1% or less of the population creates what 99% consumes.
2. The majority of code being written right now is being written in languages that didn't exist 20 years ago so learning anything as a child will probably be obsolete by the time the kid is grown
People that think this way are thinking of object oriented programmers that are a dime a dozen.
There is a very wide world of IT "coders" out there. Learn SQL, it's been around for a long time. It's not going anywhere for a long time.
Every company has vast amounts of data, every company wants to leverage that data.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 2:54 pm to Huey Lewis
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2. The majority of code being written right now is being written in languages that didn't exist 20 years ago so learning anything as a child will probably be obsolete by the time the kid is grown
This is just straight up wrong. Java, Python, SQL PHP, and Javascript existed 20 years ago. Unless there is some other language that is dominating that I don't know about.
So much of coding is learning how to do it, languages are mostly just syntax. So even if in 20 years the languages are all different it won't matter that much.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 3:06 pm to Huey Lewis
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The majority of code being written right now is being written in languages that didn't exist 20 years ago so learning anything as a child will probably be obsolete by the time the kid is grown
Yeah, that's not really what coding is about...sure it's the way to communicate with the computer...but it is more about math concepts or math machines for easier work.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 3:24 pm to Huey Lewis
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2. The majority of code being written right now is being written in languages that didn't exist 20 years ago so learning anything as a child will probably be obsolete by the time the kid is grown
Understanding programming concepts would still be useful though. Just because the languages are new it doesn't mean that the information is useless.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 4:50 pm to Huey Lewis
If they start when they are 10, they will know the principles, not just syntax.
SQL is universal.
SQL is universal.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 5:08 pm to Huey Lewis
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The majority of code being written right now is being written in languages that didn't exist 20 years ago so learning anything as a child will probably be obsolete by the time the kid is grown
You couldn't be more wrong.
I develop software myself and I don't work in the languages I learned in school.
"Learning to code" is not about learning a specific language. It's about learning how to tell a machine to do stuff in *any* language.
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