Title: ONE MILLION OF THE BEST JOBS IN AMERICA MAY GO UNFILLED... Source:
THE LEFSETZ LETTER URL Source:http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/ Published:Mar 1, 2013 Author:HOUNDDAWG Post Date:2013-03-01 02:03:01 by HOUNDDAWG Keywords:computers, coding, Midas and Gates, stacks o Views:237 Comments:6
...BECAUSE ONLY 1 in 10 SCHOOLS TEACH STUDENTS HOW TO CODE. (and that blows)
WATCH THE VIDEO AND PASS IT ON or prepare for a million more hungry Indians arriving on H1B Visas!
Poster Comment:
"Learn to code online at code.org"
Also, and this is important; feel free to hate on Bob Lefsetz.
I think coding is fantastic. I remember when I first took computer courses and we had to learn DOS (disc operating system), which was way long before WordPerfect, MicroSoft Word, Excel, and other programs came in the picture and the Internet. We had to learn the internal structure of the computer to basic language on programming.
I think every student should be able to learn how to type as well. Bring back those typewriters and WordPak and teach these kids how to spell and apply them in a sentence. We are graduating too many illiterate people who come into college and cannot even write a complete sentence.
There are plenty of people to fill those jobs, but corporations want to hire foreigners for far lower wages.
Most coding jobs are not at large corporations. They are at local businesses.
I challenge anyone to go to monster.com or careerbuilder.com and type programmer, software developer, or software engineer into the job title area, and then type in the name of the town they live in. You will see that the overwhelming majority of the jobs are for local companies.
The average pay for a Computer Information Systems and/or Computer Science graduate straight out of college in Springfield, MO is $43,000. That's with no experience but a summer internship. Right now there are no less than 50 local companies in the Springfield, MO area advertising programming positions with Missouri State University.