@scottalanmiller said:
@MattKing said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@MattKing said:
@scottalanmiller Yea when I was in school they were phasing it out and you could only learn logo/turtle, by the time I was in high-school it wasn't offered.
When I was in school everyone was interested in it even though I went to country schools that didn't teach any programming. I went to tiny rural schools. My niece goes to a massive Texan school bigger than every county's school in every county that bordered my home county combined (like bigger than every school in six counties put together) and they have, by early high school, not one single kid who has ever learned to program! Not one. We went from one in two to less than one in ten thousand!!
What about all of these awesome new online places? The ones that promise to give you the skills to make that new ~whatever~ you want? Are those profit-driven just to give the bare minimum to design and debug phone apps?
Those are the worst. Those not only aren't worth the money but often put your resume on a blacklist. They are actively bad for your career rather than being passive like a normal degree. They've become sought after by hiring managers as a way to filter people out.
Hahaha that's actually quite funny, and sad for all of the people that wasted their time.
