President Obama calls on every American to learn code

[loganryan99]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XvmhE1J9PY

 

Glad to see him pushing for this.

[Mitrailleuse]

Mhm,already learnt java and c++,this is not the path for me.

[Imabigmac]

Must create more NSA hackers

[Hyydrah]

"Learning these skills isn't just important for your future, it's important for our country's future."

 

You know what else is important? Bringing the 'change' that you promised years ago.

 

It's good that he's at least supporting this, though.

[Mooshi]

One of the rare occasions Obama said something that wasn't plagued with political motivation that I agree with.

[Qpm5]

cool i started learning HTML and wanted to start learning java and others. We need more focus on this stuff in school there is only 1-2 classes that teach any coding.

[helping]

Isn't the industry already saturated?

(or so I was under the impression)

[gastew15]

Is he trying to take my job? I guess I can at least say Obama took ma Jerb!

[Extingquish]

Isn't the industry already saturated?

(or so I was under the impression)

There's always a demand for programmers (at least where I live)

[gastew15]

Isn't the industry already saturated?

(or so I was under the impression)

If you're good there's jobs, most of the time though unless you know people at a place it's fairly difficult to find a place that needs a programer.

[wng_kingsley7]

America striving towards the "American dream" to which I don't even know what that statement could potentially mean at this present moment

[miyabwah]

No.

[xRAGExSounDxRIOTX]

I'm learning arduino and learning to program java for FIRST Robotics to code the robot. I want to be in the video game industry or engineering field when I'm older. I've looked at easy C and C++ and sort of understood it. 

[Ryan Leech]

I HATE OBAMA

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Isn't the industry already saturated?

(or so I was under the impression)

 

Not at all, (literally) 99% of Computer Scientists have a job in the field within 6 months after graduating here in Denmark, the last 1% being jobless by choice.

[bob345]

I find I funny how he pushes this after the healthcare.gov fail

[Frix]

Must. Take. All. App. Ideas.

[OneGun]

They teach code in Spanish?

[Zeo2002]

Not at all, (literally) 99% of Computer Scientists have a job in the field within 6 months after graduating here in Denmark, the last 1% being jobless by choice.

 

President of Denmark is Obama... I like that ring a lot better then "President of the USA, Obama"

 

Not to sound or be offensive, but this is specifically for "Americans" and while we have many abroad, I'm pretty sure this is for those residing in the US. To my knowledge, coders are pretty well saturated here. On the bright side - it looks like if we want to go abroad we can go to Denmark and get a job as a coder there!

 

EDIT: Wow that was a long run-on sentence. Should be better now.

Edited December 9, 2013 by Zeo2002

[Hans Christian | Teri]

President of Denmark is Obama... I like that ring a lot better then "President of the USA, Obama"

 

Not to sound or be offensive, but this is specifically for "Americans" and while we have many abroad, I'm pretty sure this is for those residing in the US, where to my knowledge, coders are pretty well saturated. But, on the bright side - it looks like if we want to go abroad we can go to Denmark and get a job as a coder there!

 

That's odd, many of our CS graduates actually move to the US to work. Maybe your market is saturated because we're stealing your jobs. In an case I definitely intend to move to the US when I'm done in 1½ years.

[IPCharger]

[YellowDragon]

Isn't the industry already saturated?

(or so I was under the impression)

Around Pittsburgh companies are screaming for computer science and software engineers. Plenty of jobs, not enough skilled people to fill them. For instance at one internship they needed 10 programmers for a rework of internal software tools. They got 23 applicants, only two people out of the entire lot had the required knowledge, Myself and one of my buddies that I roomed with. The others just didn't have the right skill-set (which was most of them), didn't present themselves well (about 1/3) or came from "Generation Entitlement" where they believed they could just get a job by walking through the front door and saying "Im Taking Programming Courses!!".

 

What got me and my buddy the job was basic skills in communication ( interview skills), skills in C# and Agile Development and what no other applicant even had.....a software portfolio filled with tons of different little projects either for classes or just for enjoyment ranging from small games using game engines like unity, to file browsers and keyloggers created with C#. Sure they were tiny and were rather simplistic but it shows that you knew your stuff and that you are actively learning something.

[Beskamir]

Wait a president that might understand the importance of technology? Perhaps this might save us from this horrible fate: http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

[jrfox87]

It's a good thing to learn. More and more of the things around us are being computerized in one way or another, so there will be more and more things that require someone to program them.

[OneGun]

Wait a president that might understand the importance of technology? Perhaps this might save us from this horrible fate: http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

He can't even get a website working after 3 years and millions of dollars.The only tech Obama knows is the teleprompter as he can't do anything without that guiding his every move.