<html><head></head><body><div><span data-mailaddress="pharos@gmail.com" data-contactname="BillK" class="clickable"><span title="pharos@gmail.com">BillK</span><span class="detail"> <pharos@gmail.com></span></span> , 21/5/2014 10:27 PM:<br><blockquote class="mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;">Employers want Java skills more than anything else
<br>IT job site Dice.com says that by a wide margin, the top search by
<br>employers is for Java/J2EE
<br><<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/employers-want-java-skills-more-anything-else-242925" target="_blank" title="http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/employers-want-java-skills-more-anything-else-242925">http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/employers-want-java-skills-more-anything-else-242925</a>>
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<br>Of course this will probably have changed by the time your son is
<br>seeking employment.
<br>Computers will be programming themselves by then. ;)
</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Re-reading Vinge's "Fast times at Fairmont High" might give some ideas of the benefit. Java may be the Regna 5 of programming languages, but learning how to learn a language is always useful. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br>Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</body></html>