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Apple CEO Tim Cook Explains Why You Don't Need a College Degree to Be Successful

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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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• Re:Coding requires (Score: 3, Interesting) by darkfeline on Sunday March 10 2019, @12:55AM

  by darkfeline (1030) on Sunday March 10 2019, @12:55AM (#812189) Homepage

  Coding is easy. Monkeys can code. Unqualified people can copy code from StackOverflow. There's the classic apocryphal story, of which I shameless copied one variation from the Web:

  Ford, whose electrical engineers couldn’t solve some problems they were having with a gigantic generator, called Steinmetz in to the plant. Upon arriving, Steinmetz rejected all assistance and asked only for a notebook, pencil and cot. According to Scott, Steinmetz listened to the generator and scribbled computations on the notepad for two straight days and nights. On the second night, he asked for a ladder, climbed up the generator and made a chalk mark on its side. Then he told Ford’s skeptical engineers to remove a plate at the mark and replace sixteen windings from the field coil. They did, and the generator performed to perfection.

  Henry Ford was thrilled until he got an invoice from General Electric in the amount of $10,000. Ford acknowledged Steinmetz’s success but balked at the figure. He asked for an itemized bill.

  Steinmetz, Scott wrote, responded personally to Ford’s request with the following:

  Making chalk mark on generator $1.

  Knowing where to make mark $9,999.

  Sure, anyone can write code (typing shit into a computer). Knowing what to write is the hard part. It's the same as English really; most American/English people can "write" English, but most people can't write any English worth a damn.

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