[ExI] sick man of the internet?

[spike]

>... On Behalf Of BillK
Subject: Re: [ExI] sick man of the internet?

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:42 AM, spike wrote:
> OK cool thanks.  My son viewed the Khan Academy MOOC on JavaScript and 
> two weeks later he is coding like a mad man.  I figure if a talented 
> second grader can do this, a rocket scientist aughta be able to figure it
out... spike

News just in -----

May 21, 2014
>...Employers want Java skills more than anything else IT job site Dice.com
says that by a wide margin, the top search by employers is for Java/J2EE
<http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/employers-want-java-skills-more
-anything-else-242925>
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Cool thanks BillK.  I have two kids with me and both are doing Java
programming at this moment.  So now it is time, past time, for me to view
those lectures and get with it.


>...Of course this will probably have changed by the time your son is
seeking employment.
Computers will be programming themselves by then.  ;)  BillK
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Sure but this assumes his seeking of employment is several years off.  Child
labor laws do not apply to independent contractors.  He's aged 7 now: if he
stays on this trajectory, he will be self-sufficient within three to five
years.

Fun aside: I am astonished at how well these kids can memorize protocols.  I
always found that tedious and arbitrary, but they seem to see it once and
never forget.

spike