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Hi Guys,
This report is about job alternatives in the era of artificial
intelligence. The question as to how to get trained.
Most businesses have websites and they advertise for people to
apply for various jobs, not necessarily in this field.
This is about training.
Bloomberg Channel today 12.24.2017 gave the best of the 2017
I listened to the CEO of Apple products.
He stated that they are into educating teachers to teach kids
"coding" because that is where the future is and now
as well.
I went to Google Search engine to find out what "coding"
is and came up with programming for PCs. This article gives an
overview about the area when you don't know anything about it
and the variables involved.
They are planning to digitize
everything and place a dollar value on it, like furniture, cars,
houses, spoons, brooms, you get the point, everything that can
have a value. It is similar of going to a store and picking what
you need and paying for it, only there won't be any dollars to
pay for it. Instead it will be traded for digital amounts, in
other words just digits 01010101 times amount of purchase. That
is why they are going to need people to know how to make programs
like apps.
Judging from this article they
are going to pay well. I never made that kind of money.
The talk now is that we better
get ready for the future because most jobs will be done by robotic
machines. They are worried about that. It's up to us to get ready.
I took correspondence courses
from a university in Chicago in bookkeeping so I would have a
clue when the time came to actually do bookkeeping. They don't
teach anything practical in college. It sure came in handy.
There is lots of information
online when you search Google that can be helpful to figure out
what to do.
The whole medical area will
be automated, it will bring prices down since people will not
have to get paid. Robots will become like people and earn taxes.
This lady was asking the following:
Will a "Programming Boot Camp" Help Me Get a
Coding Job?
M.P.
Dear Lifehacker,
I'm interested in getting a job as a programmer, but I
don't have any formal training. I heard boot camps can get me
into a job in just a couple of months. They seem intense and
expensive, though. Are they worth it?
Signed,
Could-be Coder
Dear Coder,
You're definitely not alone in your interest in coding as a career.
Programming is one of the highest paying and most in-demand careers
you can find these days-and it doesn't require a four-year degree.
Coding boot camps promise to get you job-ready in a relatively
short amount of time.
In a Recent Video from Lifehacker
Over 60 boot camps have risen up in the last few years to meet
the needs of career changers and others looking to get on the
fast track to a nearly six-figure job in software development.
These programs-usually are 8 to 12 weeks long and costing $10,000
on average - offer hands-on training, career guidance and community
support, and the opportunity to work on personal projects you
can showcase to prospective employers. They're like trade schools
for the digital age. Although they can be a great way to become
a professional coder, boot camps aren't for everyone. Let's look
at the pros and cons.
The Programming Skills, Jobs,
and Company Types That Pay the Most. With high job demand and
high paying salaries, programming is one of the most attractive
careers.
Boot Camps Versus Self-Study
and College Degrees
In terms of costs and time commitment, coding boot camps fall
in between self-study and the traditional university computer
science degrees.
Self -study: Many successful and awesome programmers
are entirely self-taught. Propelled by their natural interest,
they tinker with and break others' code and otherwise learn by
doing - sometimes with their own personal learning plans or through
the myriad of online coding courses and resources available.
The benefits of this approach are the $0 tuition cost, of course,
and the flexible schedule, but you need a great amount discipline
to learn in your free time, as well as the skill and insight
to put together your own curriculum, so to speak. Also, without
any kind of formal training, you might have a harder time landing
a job unless you have a solid body of work to prove your programming
skills and experience.
College degrees: On the other side of the spectrum
are formal university degree programs and classes. A degree in
computer science will give you a broader foundation and open
more job doors for you when employers are looking at candidates'
credentials. After all, some argue it's more important to learn
how to think like a computer scientist than to learn how to code.
College degrees, however, are expensive, and for those who want
to start their career as soon as possible in a particular programming
role, a traditional degree can feel like overkill or even like
a waste of time.
Boot camps fall in between
both of these, both in terms of cost and time investment. They
offer a much more focused education in programming languages
or tracks. While boot camps can get you job-ready faster than
the college route, the industry isn't regulated (yet), you won't
get as well-rounded an education as you would at university,
there's only a short time to learn, and, like enrolling in a
vocational school, getting a good job isn't guaranteed.
The Wall Street Journal reports
:
Entry-level coders earn less than programmers with university
degrees who enter the job market. Some major IT companies contacted
by SeedPaths haven't been interested in its boot-camp graduates
because they usually lack a college degree. And because boot
camps are so new, the jury is out on whether they are producing
successful programmers.
"Hiring someone straight from school, from a coding course
or a four-year university, is an investment," said Will
Cole, director of products for Stack Overflow Careers, which
employs 40 software developers. "We don't have the infrastructure
to train new people without much experience."
But Mr. Cole said he does like boot camps for "taking the
mystique out of programming."
Compared to self-study, however, boot camps offer more support
and additional motivation to learn and succeed. After all, you're
investing $10,000 and 10 sleepless weeks of your life to this
one purpose. Because of that investment and the immerse nature
of these boot camps, you'll learn more quickly and thoroughly
through a boot camp than you likely would on your own. Plus,
you'll become part of a community of coders, a very valuable
resource in itself.
So far, enrolling in a boot camp might sound ideal if you're
dead set on a programming career, but it does cost thousands
of dollars, and most programs will require you to quit your job
and drop everything for weeks, so enrolling isn't a decision
you can make lightly.
What Boot Camps Are Like and
What You'll Learn
In a nutshell, coding boot camps help you "learn to code,"
whether you choose a web developer or a mobile app developer
track, the JavaScript or Java program. Most boot camps seem to
have a similar structure - a dedicated amount of time for lectures
followed by hands-on experience.
Lifehacker reader NH tells me:
It was intense. Mornings were spent learning a new concept
along with an instructor and afternoons left us mostly on our
own to apply the new concepts in daily challenges. I rarely left
the classroom before 10pm. Weekdays were basically wake up, work
in class, go home, go to bed. Even weekends, though there was
no class, rarely offered a reprieve. By the end of the 8 weeks
I couldn't imagine going any longer. But I loved every moment
of it.
Because of the round-the-clock
time commitment, boot camps aren't ideal for people who hope
to keep working (or having a life) while they study, as most
are in-person programs with set schedules. A few online boot
camps like Bloc and Career Foundry offer more flexibility,
but even these courses require you to put in a significant amount
of time each week - for several weeks - to acquire the skills
you seek.
Depending on the boot camp,
the intensive courses can also teach you more nuanced, professional
skills that can be invaluable when starting out in your new job.
V.B., who had almost no prior tech experience before attending
Makers Academy and just started her first developing job, said:
I'm not a software expert by any means, but Makers definitely
prepared me for a number of aspects of my job: diving into the
code, learning on the fly, asking the right questions to get
myself where I need to be. I was able to dive into the legacy
code I'll be working with and know what I was looking at.
Boot camp is incredible
because you get to learn by doing. There are a lot of great online
resources out there, but things like Codecademy exist in a vacuum.
When you're just starting out on your own, you don't even know
what you don't know and what kinds of things you should be looking
to learn. Makers taught me more than just syntax for programming
languages. It taught me TDD, SOLID principles, how to take sort
of nebulous programming logic and turn it into something concrete
in the form of a web site with a lot of moving parts. You also
get to learn with others, pair programming, working together.
It's better than learning alone. We had really long days. A lot
of us were at the office from 9am to 9pm. But we had lunch together,
played a lot of ping pong, grabbed a few beers after hours. It
was hard, but fun and oh so educational. I'd definitely do it
again.
More important than learning
a specific language is the basic ability to pick up new technologies
quickly-something boot camp alumni should be able to prove easily
to employers.
S.A., who attended the all-women
Hackbright Academy says:
Once I started working, I was put on our iOS team, which
was a stack I had no experience with (iOS is programmed in Objective-C
and Hackbright had taught me Python, and programming mobile apps
has a different set of challenges than programming for the web).
But, I had proved that I could learn a ton in 10 weeks and was
prepared to do it again-I was part of the team that shipped our
first iOS app in July of last year, and then dove right in to
do it again for Android, which shipped in December. I'm
now working on our web site, writing mostly Angular and Rails,
so I've basically completely changed my tech stack every 6 months.
There's only so much you can learn in a 10 week boot camp, but
the important thing is that you prove you can pick up new technologies
quickly, which is an essential skill for a software engineer,
since the landscape changes all the time. So, in that way, I
did feel as prepared as I could have been for someone who had
really only been coding sincerely for less than 5 months. There
was still a ton I had to learn on the job, but it was mostly
things that you only learn from working with a team in a professional
environment, and not things you could learn on your own.
The end goal for most boot
camp attendees is to go in and a few weeks later emerge with
the coding chops and confidence to not just get a job as a full-time
software engineer, but make a career out of it. And some boot
camps offer job searching as part of the curriculum, which is
one of the reasons Curtis Mitchell chose Hack Reactor:
About halfway through their program the focus shifts from
learning programming to actually making web applications to build
a portfolio, followed by interview and job search preparation.
HR had staff and former alumni dedicated to helping students
with their job search. They taught us how to sell ourselves and
our skill sets, talk about our portfolios, and search for relevant
companies and suitable roles. They had frequent checkins with
students and recently-graduated alums during the job search process.
All but one of the 15 or so
people who shared their boot camp experiences with me were positive
about it, even though a few people aren't working as programmers
now but instead working as project managers and founders of their
own startups. The majority went into it with some programming
experience already. They were completely sure about their decision,
however. That surety seems to be critical.
How to Tell If a Boot Camp
Is Right for You
As with other educational choices and career paths, making this
big decision boils down to what you hope to achieve. The ideal
boot camp candidates, according to Jesse Farmer, co-founder of
CodeUnion, meet four criteria:
1. They want to change careers and become a full-time (junior)
software engineer.
2. They can afford the opportunity cost, i.e., they can quit
their jobs, move across the country, etc.
3. They can afford the tuition.
4. They know they can thrive in intense environments.
Although anyone can attend a boot camp (if accepted), because
of the high tuition cost and the drop-everything-you're-doing,
full-day and full-week courseload, boot camps are most suited
for people committed to a career change and sure they want to
go into programming.
Most of the people who talked
to me about their reasons for attending a boot camp had a similar
background: They had some to little background in coding but
they knew that if they wanted to go to the next level they had
to do something drastic.
Not everyone has to have some
experience in coding to get accepted to a boot camp, but it helps.
You don't want to invest thousands of dollars, quit your job,
and go full-time into one of these programs only to drop out
mid-way when you realize this isn't the path for you. If you
don't have much experience in programming or aren't sure about
it as a career, try one of the many free options like Codecademy
first to see if you actually like programming. Join a Meetup
group like Girl Develop It or Railsbridge, and take an online,
community-driven class to test the waters, Skillcrush recommends.
(Skillcrush offers a free 10-day career-focused boot camp as
an introduction to boot camps, at least online.)
NH says:
Everyone who I've talked to since who has been interested
in attending this bootcamp I've told the same thing: you have
to want it. Like, REALLY want it. You can't go in just hoping
to scrape enough from it to get a new job. It'll defeat you.
You have to want to learn for the sake of learning or you'll
never make it. If you don't have a passion for it, boot camps
aren't for you. You'll get frustrated, you'll give up,
you'll tell yourself it's just not for you or that you're not
good enough. I saw it happen in my own cohort. I had a little
prior experience that gave me a slight leg up from others coming
in fresh, but I don't think that's why I succeeded. I got what
I wanted out of it because I wanted it more than anything so
I put everything I had into it. So I tell people if they can
do the same then they'll get everything they want from the experience
and then some.
In other words, like all other experiences with the "boot
camp" name (think Navy SEAL training and baby boot camp),
this is not a casual experience and you will have to be fully
invested in it.
Will Boot Camps Get You a Job?
If you're dedicated to it, a boot camp can turn you into a software
engineer in a couple of months, but the bigger question might
be: will it get you a better job?
Graduates of boot camps surveyed
by Course Report had an average 44% boost in income after attending
the boot camp. (The survey included 432 graduates from 48 programming
schools.) Before attending the boot camp, 48% were employed full-time,
and after attending the boot camp, 63% were employed full-time.
The majority of boot camps surveyed offer career services such
as resume assistance or internship/apprenticeship placement.
If your goal is to land a career
in programming, you'll probably want to look carefully at each
boot camp's job placement rates and career services. According
to Launch Academy co-founder Evan Charles on Quora:
As of now, there is not a standardized calculation for placement
rates amongst boot camps (we're going to try our best to help
the consumer out on this over the next few months). At Launch
Academy, our placement rate is calculated as job seekers who
obtain paid positions with companies within 90-days of graduation
where 'job seekers' is defined as graduates who are actively
communicating with our Talent Director, attending scheduled interviews
and/or participating in any of the various career service resources
we offer during the Post Grad Support stage of the program.
Published Placement Rates
of Popular Boot Camps
· Dev Bootcamp: 85% placement rate overall; 100% in some
specific cohorts
· Hack Reactor: 98-99% overall
· Launch Academy: 96% placement rate overall (in some
cohorts 100% of job seekers have found jobs over time)
· MakerSquare: 96% placement rate overall
Hackbright's job
placement is 90% within
3 months.
85-96% placement rates are pretty good! But you wouldn't want
to be in the 4-15% who paid for the education and are still looking
for work.
Some schools offer a job-offer
guarantee: You'll land a job within a set number of months of
graduating in set locations (you must be willing to relocate
to tech-friendly cities) or your tuition will be reimbursed.
Code Fellows and Viking Code School offer a guarantee or refund
of tuition if you don't get hired. Many schools also offer a
partial tuition reimbursement-of several thousand dollars-if
you get a job with one of the boot camps' partner companies.
Although most of the people who emailed me about their experiences
said they got job offers before or shortly the program even ended,
unless the program offers a 100% job placement guarantee, there's
no assurance your time and financial investment will lead to
a job.
One boot camp alum told
me:
I haven't yet gotten a job and I've been looking for over a month.
Starting to get worried. A recruiter told me that initially web
dev boot camp graduates were having a lot of success getting
hired because it was such a new thing, but it's not the case
now. I wish I had work experience to show that I'm a developer.
I just got denied from a job because I had no work experience
in Rails.
So while a coding boot camp
looks like a promising fast track to a career in coding, being
a boot camp graduate in itself probably shouldn't be your biggest
selling point for potential employers. Also, despite the high
job placement rates, it could take months to get a job after
graduating from a boot camp.
How to Choose and Pay for
a Coding Boot Camp
Perhaps the most important
decision is picking the right bootcamp. When choosing
a particular boot camp, you'll want to look at the program's
success rate and curriculum first and foremost (e.g., if the
program has a strong emphasis on JavaScript and that's what you
want to learn), but there are other considerations, such as location
and alumni network. A few tips:
· Check this list of
the factors you should consider when choosing a boot camp from
Jeff Lee-from the technical and non-tech skills they teach to
the facilities, payment plans, typical schedule, and culture
of the program
· Narrow your list of schools with boot camp directories
from Course Report, Bootcamps.in, or Skilledup
· Read reviews at Thinkful and Switchup
to see what others are saying about the programs. Read all the
reviews you can find, in fact, on Quora and Hacker
News too, because you might find some horror stories like
these
· Ask alumnis and program directors or teachers more about
the program-things like how many students are in each class,
what kinds of job assistance they offer, how much experience
students are expected to have upon entering, how they help students
who are struggling, and what daily life is like at the boot camp
To pay the large price tag,
some boot camps offer payment plans and deferred payment (e.g.,
a percent of your first year's salary after you graduate), but
otherwise, you'll need to save up for or finance this tuition
expense the way you would other similar large expenses. Some
code schools offer scholarships for veterans/military personnel,
women, minorities, and other select groups.
Not all boot camps are the
same, and you'll want
to make sure you pick the best one before you spend tens of thousands
of dollars on one. But it could be life-changing and the easiest
way to break into a programming career if you're not fresh out
of college with a computer science degree. Makers Academy graduate
Christopher Batts adds:
Probably the most amazing thing about the course that I saw
throughout it, and often isn't discussed, is that for many this
is the last chance for that career change. It's really really
hard to break into the tech world as a coder from a non-coding
job. Usually coders are self-taught from a young age or went
the computer science at uni route. If Makers didn't exist, I'm
sure a lot of the guys that have gone through it would still
be stuck in a role they hated, doing something that didn't challenge
them. Makers really was one of the only options for them to make
that career change.
Just know what you're getting into and be ready to dive in.
Love,
Lifehacker
M.P.
4/03/15
Fascinating. I was only peripherally
aware that such a thing existed. Personally, I like the idea
if programming is something you're absolutely sure you want to
do professionally and you have the means to do something like
this. Professionally, I would definitely interview somebody coming
out of one these programs, and I suspect they would do better
than most of my interviews because they have just spent intensive
time WRITING CODE
Next is a link to the National
Governors Convention last month 2.25.2018 which I happen to watch.
Guess what it was about??
National Governors Association
Winter Meeting, Innovation and Workforce Skills
Part of the program was Ginni
Rometty who talked about workforce skills and innovation at the
National Governors Association annual winter meeting.
Governor Brian Sandoval…
National Governors Association Winter Meeting, Innovation and
Workforce Skills Ginni Rometty [IBM CEO CHAIR]
talked about workforce skills and innovation at
the National Governors Association annual winter meeting. Governor
Brian Sandoval (R-NV), the NGA chair, outlined initiative chair's
initiative aimed at helping governors stay ahead of rapidly
advancing technologies.
Ginni talked about public/private
education for people of all ages to learn skills neccessary in
technology. College is not necessary anymore. You can
graduate from highschool with an associate degree and even a
job. She wants governors to get this into highschools and continued
education courses since IBM can't fill their positions without
training.
Her talk was somewhat technical
but in the end she made it clear what she has in mind for education
and what the benefits will be. I highly recommend listening to
it to the end. The jobs pay very well. IBM develops most of this
technology.
Three governors have installed
Ginni's request and highly recommend it. The parents of students
were delighted with it as well.
- https://www.c-span.org/video/?441465-3/national-governors-
- association-winter-meeting-innovation-workforce-skills
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- Future of Workforce
- US News & World
Report
Future of the Workforce
and STEM Education Business and government leaders talked about
the best practices for developing a workforce skilled in science,
technology, and engineering disciplines to meet the qualifications
of future jobs. Among the speakers were ZipRecruiter.com co-founder
and CEO Ian Siegel, Governors Mary Fallin (R-OK) and John Hickenlooper
of (D-CO) and a senior policy adviser with the White House Office
of Science and Technology.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?443580-1/business-leaders-discuss-
- future-stem-development
- PATHWAY TO TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION
If you are worried about a job this is a must see video and watch
it to the end since the job talk is at the end of this video,
60 min long and well worth your time.
Ginni Rometty IBM Chair Addresses Pathway to Technology education,
internships Job opportunities for Highschool students Associate
degree part of Highschool GRADUATION. Retraining necessary throughout
lives for any age. Job training in hundreds of areas of businesses.
Ginni is seeking Public Private Partnerships from governors to
set up training centers. Colorado is involved in small towns.
Name it, any and all companies will need employees who have this
training. She has 60,000 kids involved who are in this training
which will provide jobs. They have paid interns as well. Every
job today will change due to technology which will make retraining
necessary throughout one's life or no job. Teacching, healthcare,
shipping, cybersecurity and many areas will have lots of jobs
in technology wellpaying jobs. If this program is part of highschool
training sounds like that part would be included in free education.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?441465-3/national-governors-association-
- winter-meeting-innovation-workforce-skills
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