Ha!  I don't know, man. "Software development" is increasingly looking like an 
industry dominated by cogs and sprockets ... from the yahoo complaining about 
my bracket placement to the bros pitching protocol inheritance, I've "had it up 
to here" with people telling me how I *should* be doing whatever it is I'm 
doing. 8^)

When the sprockets take over, it's time to move on.

On 05/04/2018 01:02 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> “As a measure of the magnitude of impact of MOOCs so far, one of our MOOC 
> specializations in the Python programming language is among the most popular 
> offerings on Coursera — I believe that it has reached more than a million 
> learners at this point. A significant fraction of those learners have opted 
> to sit for an exam to get a certificate in Python programming.”
> 
>  
> 
> <Huff>  A person that seeks a Coursera class to learn Python is not destined 
> for a career in software development.
> 
>  
> 
> “Also, we introduced an Applied Data Science specialization about a year ago. 
> That one, though not receiving enrollments at quite the same level as the 
> Python specialization, is generating tens of thousands of learners per 
> quarter.”
> 
>  
> 
> Thousands of learners or thousands of people who create a filtering problem 
> for recruiting departments?


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