> I'm not sure that there was an inrush of programmers because "it could make a lot of money".
I certainly saw that in college in the 90s. I was shocked at the number of people who didn't know anything about or even really care about software who were in computer science classes. Because the dotcom boom meant anyone could be a "webmaster," so computer knowledge would lead to a "good job."
Since then I've seen at least two more waves of folks chasing the money. Because millennials and zoomers have precious little hope of living debt free or even home ownership unless they follow what we used to think of as a "get-rich-quick scheme" like taking a 6-week bootcamp to try to get a tech job.
> Some are very, very technical, more like the civil engineers the speaker talks about.
> there are engineers on the other end of the spectrum that are more focused on completing a task with perhaps a more pragmatic (?) focus.
> Perhaps it's a good thing the industry has both kinds.
Would you say the same of any ("other") engineering discipline? It's a good thing those engineers at Boeing were worried about completing the task at hand instead of taking a deep, technical, holistic view, perhaps? I can't agree with you.
I certainly saw that in college in the 90s. I was shocked at the number of people who didn't know anything about or even really care about software who were in computer science classes. Because the dotcom boom meant anyone could be a "webmaster," so computer knowledge would lead to a "good job."
Since then I've seen at least two more waves of folks chasing the money. Because millennials and zoomers have precious little hope of living debt free or even home ownership unless they follow what we used to think of as a "get-rich-quick scheme" like taking a 6-week bootcamp to try to get a tech job.
> Some are very, very technical, more like the civil engineers the speaker talks about.
> there are engineers on the other end of the spectrum that are more focused on completing a task with perhaps a more pragmatic (?) focus.
> Perhaps it's a good thing the industry has both kinds.
Would you say the same of any ("other") engineering discipline? It's a good thing those engineers at Boeing were worried about completing the task at hand instead of taking a deep, technical, holistic view, perhaps? I can't agree with you.