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Kathleen Martin
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During a campaign rally back in 2019, then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke to a crowd in a coal mining town. Advocating a green agenda, the audience was understandably unhappy. To console the coal miners, Biden offered some career advice: “Learn to code.”
Shortly after the comments were made by Biden, over 1,000 jobs in journalism were eliminated. The fired journalists shared their sad stories on Twitter. As former colleagues gave their condolences and offered job leads, there were many people mockingly tweeting the reporters, telling them that they should seek out a new profession and “learn to code.”
Fast forward a few years and “learn to code” went from a derogatory meme battle between blue-collar miners and truckers and college-educated journalists to becoming a real career option for many people.
Software developers are the most desired employees in our rapidly changing digital economy. Take a look at any job board or online corporate career section and you’ll find a steady stream of job openings for coders.
Seeing a dire need for tech talent and large numbers of people wanting to switch careers, the Flatiron school offered an immersive bootcamp-type curriculum, focused on teaching people how to code. The irony is that only a few short years ago, it was considered a joke that the average working-class American could forsake their job and reinvent themselves as a tech professional.
The educational facility is open to training people from all walks of life, no college degree or experience required. You do, however, need to have some aptitude, motivation and dedication. The roughly $16,900 price tag on a Flatiron bootcamp is much less than four years of college tuition.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/11/06/learn-to-code-went-from-a-meme-to-the-flatiron-school-teaching-average-americans-to-become-well-paid-tech-professionals/?sh=57e0aaeb1fa0
Shortly after the comments were made by Biden, over 1,000 jobs in journalism were eliminated. The fired journalists shared their sad stories on Twitter. As former colleagues gave their condolences and offered job leads, there were many people mockingly tweeting the reporters, telling them that they should seek out a new profession and “learn to code.”
Fast forward a few years and “learn to code” went from a derogatory meme battle between blue-collar miners and truckers and college-educated journalists to becoming a real career option for many people.
Software developers are the most desired employees in our rapidly changing digital economy. Take a look at any job board or online corporate career section and you’ll find a steady stream of job openings for coders.
Seeing a dire need for tech talent and large numbers of people wanting to switch careers, the Flatiron school offered an immersive bootcamp-type curriculum, focused on teaching people how to code. The irony is that only a few short years ago, it was considered a joke that the average working-class American could forsake their job and reinvent themselves as a tech professional.
The educational facility is open to training people from all walks of life, no college degree or experience required. You do, however, need to have some aptitude, motivation and dedication. The roughly $16,900 price tag on a Flatiron bootcamp is much less than four years of college tuition.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/11/06/learn-to-code-went-from-a-meme-to-the-flatiron-school-teaching-average-americans-to-become-well-paid-tech-professionals/?sh=57e0aaeb1fa0
