By Declining Degree Education Higher Risk, We Need High-tech Immigrants
Q: What a pathetic piece of corporate propaganda. They labeled workers that
want to keep their jobs as extremists. Why don't we call those fat,
ultra-rich corporate boys extremists for wanting to destroy the American way
of life?
A:This is why so many non-CompSci majors are now doing programming. It is
entirely possible that if adequate numbers of CompSci graduates had been
granted that companies would have retained their requirement that employees
have a CompSci degree, and this would have locked out a fair number of
people who are now very successful at programming. I suspect, but of course
would never be able to prove, that this would have resulted in lower quality
programming.
In any event, while I have little doubt that there is a severe shortage of
experienced programmers, I'm not sure that figures about degrees prove
anything either way. The supply of programmers seems constrained more by a
human nature that is at odds with logic and symbolic manipulation. As the
information revolution is still very young it is practically inevitable that
demand for highly-skilled information workers will continue to outstrip
supply