Decades of research shows job training programs don't work at scale because of lack of *supply* of appropriate good jobs. There are always nice learned-to-code stories (I'm one: started coding as a kid and it literally saved my life) but those don't scale.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/us/mined-minds-west-virginia-coding.html …
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Replying to @zeynep
This is a really sad story. As an experienced programmer (i.e. decades doing it) I know you just can't teach people with no prior experience to be useful programmers in a matter of weeks. It'll take 6 months at least, assuming they're trained/mentored by expert programmers.
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Also, out of the original intake, many will turn out to be poor programmers, whom most employers would find to he a liability rather than an asset. Simply learning a single programming language, with no clues about *design*, is a recipe for unmaintainable, buggy code.
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It makes me really angry when I see adverts for coding courses like this, especially when applicants are told they'll get highly paid jobs at the end of the course. The reality of the job market is that you need a proven track record (i.e. experience) to earn good money.
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Yeah. The part that's worst is that these things give people false hope and waste their time. Spending months in a strict program like this is a significant hit for someone already battling poverty.
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The worst part is seeing these people at the very end of this process, when they are still full of hope, and then six months to a year later when they realize that it's not going to work out and they spent what little time and energy they had on a futile hope. It's terrible.
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