[Discuss] learn or teach programs

[joe at polcari.com (Joe Polcari)]

And for the people who want to take the jump, c'mon you can do it!

Free entry level online training http://www.codecademy.com
(scroll down to the grey part of the page to see the languages and modules).
It looks like a great starting place for those interested. 
If you get into it and have questions, this site was called out as being a
great resource http://stackoverflow.com.



-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces+joe=polcari.com at blu.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces+joe=polcari.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Peter (peabo)
Olson
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 1:44 AM
To: Mike Small; markw at mohawksoft.com
Cc: BLU
Subject: Re: [Discuss] learn or teach programs

On January 17, 2014 at 12:01 AM markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> <rant or not>
> I have an issue with trying to get people to program or develop software.
> You don't see lawyers saying we need more lawyers. You don't see many 
> professions trying to actively recruit people.

Most people who could program computers don't know that they can.

It's true that the development of large software packages requires expertise
that is only developed over a long time of journeymanship, but look at the
available easy programming environments:

Python
Scratch
CAD programs with command line interfaces Web server environments

I hope we don't need more lawyers, but I encourage anyone to discover
mastery of this universal machine, the computer.

peabo
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