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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday March 09 2019, @11:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the but-does-it-help dept.

Business Insider:

According to Cook, there are certain in-demand skills that students may not learn in college — namely, coding.

"And so to that end, as we've looked at the — sort of, the mismatch between the skills that are coming out of colleges and what the skills are that we believe we need in the future, and many other businesses do, we've identified coding as a very key one," Cook said during the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board meeting on Wednesday, during which President Trump met with the board's members, including Cook.

Cook also added that about half of Apple's US employment last year was made up of people who did not have a four-year degree.

The Apple CEO also said he believes that it should be a requirement for every kid in the U.S. to have some level of coding education before they graduate high school. Apple launched its Everyone Can Code program in 2016, a curriculum designed to help students from Kindergarten to college learn coding. There are 4,000 schools in the US using Apple's curriculum, according to Cook.

Save yourself the cost of college: Learn to Code?


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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday March 09 2019, @01:32PM (3 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday March 09 2019, @01:32PM (#812009) Homepage Journal

    One of my very-most painful memories - and I am _reliving_ it simply by writing this - is that of my older sister having been completely overcome with grief because our father would not permit her to take an art class in eighth grade, after having taken it in seventh grade, thereby discovering not merely her own true passion, but her only real hope for a career.

    "I WANT TO BE AN ARTIST!" She would scream in pain, over and over and over again.

    "YOU ARE GOING TO BE AN ENGINEER!" Raged our father, over and over and over again.

    The two of them went on for two solid hours. That no one called the police lends credence to my assertion that Kitty Genovese died for naught.

    You see, for Jeannie to have taken Art would have prevented her from enrolling in Science as they were taught in the same period. After all, the students who really do excel in one but rarely have interest in the other, let alone expertise.

    Our father - an Electrical Power Engineer with a Naval Top Security Clearance - passed away peacefully in his sleep early on the morning of Mother's Day in 2003.

    Now Jean Evans is a photographer [fineartamerica.com], mostly of nature, as well as a graphic artist and a found-object jewelry artisan [purple-ducky.com].

    As for me?

    I made plain my own great joy with Engineering with a late 2009 Kuro5hin Diary entitle "Will You Motherfuckers Kindly Cut Me Some God Damn Slack?" in which I quite _lucidly_ made plain that my _only_ purpose in developing Ogg Frog [archive.org] - a Free Software, _not_ Open Source "iTunes Killer" - was to draw Ad Clicks to the essays and articles I published on its website...

    ... which ad clicks enabled me to stop writing code that I may prepare for my music school audition [soggymike.com]. My plan was then and is now to Major in Musical Composition:

    When you listen to your "Inner Ear" - the music of your thoughts, not of your hallucinations - mostly you hear your favorite hits as well as annoying advertising jingles.

    Since November 1984, when I myself listen to my own Inner Ear, I have always heard fully-orchestrated original symphonies.

    But I do not know how to write them down. [guacamoleroad.com]

    My own father's great pain was that he too was an artist - oil painting - and a musician to put me completely to shame, but among my own life's greatest agonies is that when he lay on his deathbed, by the time I was able to get home to his side, he was paralyzed and so unable to answer my questions as to why he gave all that up before I was even born.

    Surely There Is Some Reason.

    --
    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday March 09 2019, @02:18PM

    by Bot (3902) on Saturday March 09 2019, @02:18PM (#812012) Journal

    >The two of them went on for two solid hours
    That's exactly what to expect from two engineers, to be honest.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @07:03PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @07:03PM (#812101)

    We'll never know if that class might have made all the difference, turning her into a decent artist. It's too late now. That is some terrible art.

    Unjustly persecuted 70-year-old pedophiles make better art, like this: http://gage20.blogspot.com/2015/ [blogspot.com]

    I assume your sister is somehow a parasite living off of my hard work, just as you are, with the government depriving me so that she can do her useless nonsense. Hopefully that isn't the case. She could have a husband, or she could have retired from an engineering job.