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The vanishing American computer programmer
From: "David Farber" <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:49:28 -0400 (EDT)
---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: RE: [IP] The vanishing American computer programmer From: "Joe Pistritto" <jcp () jcphome com> Date: Sat, July 14, 2007 8:06 pm To: dave () farber net ip () v2 listbox com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Josh, thanks for being persistent and sending this along. As someone who has a son just starting the CS program at UC Davis this fall (and who was a hiring manager at Oracle and knows all about the "rigged ad" way of avoiding hiring an American for an H-1B's job...) I'm hoping for no expansion of H-1Bs anytime soon... -jcp- PS: but there is a point there. The "image" of the computer programming industry in high schools is that there will be no jobs in the industry in 10 years. Its not a surprise that high school students don't choose CS as a career. Only 1 or 2 of the students in my son's AP Computer Science classes had any intention of pursuing the field even when they got good scores in the classes. This is a group of students the industry *shouldn't* be losing, but is. Anyone who has any association with higher education has seen the enormous drop-off in entering students in CS programs. (not that they weren't probably a bit too high before). There's a little bit of a recent upturn, but the field has lost a great deal of its attractiveness over the last 10 years. ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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