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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?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @03:11PM
Yes, more code monkeys will result in lower wages. But it will also result in more very bad code. Not everyone is cut out to be a programmer, just like not everyone is cut out to be a surgeon, or concert pianist, or deep-sea welder.
This idea that just increasing the number of coders will be a good thing, comes from treating people as replaceable widgets. To management, a coder is a coder; when one drops dead, just shove another in the open-air assigned seating. But the best coders are craftsmen, who can see not only how to create a specific code section, but understands how that section fits into the greater whole of the entire application. The really good ones can see how the whole system fits together. Not everyone can do that. Those that can do that, are not interchangeable.
Given how software is more and more involved with every part of our lives and our society, churning out more bad programmers is a great way to slowly degrade everything.