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Google CEO: Tech Education Should Be More Than Just Coding

posted by janrinok on Sunday January 21 2018, @07:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the apparently-you-need-an-assistant dept.

Arthur T Knackerbrackethas found the following story:

Coding is a vital component of tech education, but it won't be enough to sustain the next generation of workers.

[...] Pichai notes that workers today are required to have skills that scarcely existed five years ago, such as an administrative assistant needing to use online programs to run budgets, scheduling and accounting, among other tasks.

And he says these skills are much easier to learn than coding, pointing to $1 billion in new initiatives Google unveiled last year aimed at training and educating workers to help them find jobs and grow their businesses.

"Through these trainings, people learn about using technology to research, to plan events, analyze data and more," Pichai wrote. "They don't require a formal degree or certificate."

[...] "We should make sure that the next generation of jobs are good jobs, in every sense," Pichai wrote. "Rather than thinking of education as the opening act, we need to make sure it's a constant, natural and simple act across life -- with lightweight, flexible courses, skills and programs available to everyone."

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  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday January 21 2018, @08:41AM (3 children)

    by krishnoid (1156) on Sunday January 21 2018, @08:41AM (#625565)

    Pichai notes that workers today are required to have skills that scarcely existed five years ago, such as an administrative assistant needing to use online programs to run budgets, scheduling and accounting, among other tasks.
    ...
    And he says these skills are much easier to learn than coding

    Maybe not online programs, but hasn't this skill been 'familiarity with Excel' for what, 30 years at this point?

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @01:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @01:05PM (#625625)

    VisiCalc 1979; 39 years ago

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Sunday January 21 2018, @05:10PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) on Sunday January 21 2018, @05:10PM (#625704)

    I believe its a VERY thinly veiled advertisement for quickbooks online, which is four years old.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @09:19PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @09:19PM (#625807)

      For those who don't like EULAware or the idea of losing their ability to do bookkeeping[1] if their server or your ISP goes down, Jack Wallen noted [google.com] some years back that (FOSS) FrontAccounting has gotten good enough for a lot of folks.

      Anybody tried it? What do you think?
      Do you use another gratis and libre replacement for Quickbooks?

      [1] Cool word: 3 sets of double letters.
      I thought about that the other day when I wrote "committee".

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