Many of you have played the angry bird. It is a game that most people can download on their smart phone.It has been develop by programmers who made millions of dollars out of it. Any person who knows programming can do the same, but the issue here is that students complain that they do not learn programming vigorously in college. They complain that they learn how to work on existing program instead of learning how to build their own program, that is why they fail to be good programmers after college. However, the best way to learn programming is by teaching your own self, because college only provide you the basic tools you need to know in order to be successful in programming. Student do not take the time to teach their own self; they are waiting for everything to come form their instructor. This lack of perfect programmers is the reason why companies look for programmers in foreign countries. Many software engineer do not codes; they provides requirements and design, and all the coding part are done in foreign countries. We can all develop programs such as the angry birds; we just need to dedicate ourselves into learning programming, not because it is a course that we must learn at school, but for our own self, for our own success.
I'm curious as to why students complain about using existing programs, I would think that students take advantage of these existing programs and use them to create even more complex programs. Is there a reason why this just isn't the case?
ReplyDeleteVery interesting i really like how you brought up the idea of so many people in college are afraid to jump in and code. In reality it is really no different then learning how to read. What do you think we can do as a nation or even as a university to help this stigma of coding that it is super hard to learn and it will not help me, go away. I am very grateful that I did take the chance to learn how to code and i think in the future it will help me i just wish other people would take that chance. Once again great article
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on that what we are learning for a Computer Science degree is very broad. I feel like we are more or less getting our feet wet before we jump into a sea of jobs. I think we will be learning much more out of college.
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