I agree with Jan's "someone in IT" that the future indications are that "coding" is going to be a dead-end job. And anyone trying to code 8 million lines of code is - hopelessly optimistic. "Coding" is what is used as an introduction to computational thinking, hence the basis of software systems development, engineering... coding alone does not scale up to these . The job is not "coding" but "software design and development" that is going to be even more in demand than it is now.
Some evidence: PwC report A Smart Move <http://pwc.docalytics.com/v/a-smart-move-pwc-stem-report-april-2015> on STEM education, jobs and the future, section on Jobs at Risk from computerisation dervied from US Bureau of Labor and a University of Oxford report) And if the reported "real challenge" is getting all the code sensors to talk to each other and not crash the whole system when one breaks - then the system or the report is rubbish. This problem is solved. (You could loosely say that I am also "in IT", but more informatively, I am in the discipline of computing.) JanW wrote: > Thanks Stephen > Some 'person' on Twitter on the #budgetreply thread just said coding was a > deadend job. I sent him this link. And he says he's "in IT". That's a worry! > Jan > > At 09:58 PM 14/05/2015, Stephen Loosley wrote: > >> >http://www.msn.com/en-au/motoring/reviews/new-ford-gt-operating-system-has-more-lines-of-code-than-a-boeing-787-dreamliner/ >> > >> > >> >Speaking with the media at a Ford GT forum in Detroit, chief engineer Jamal >> >Hameedi revealed the new Ford GT is a vastly different car than its 2005 >> >predecessor. >> > >> >While ABS was the most high-tech system of the 2005 Ford GT, the new GT >> >employees over 50 different sensors feeding 28 microprocessors and >> >refreshed every eight milliseconds. >> > >> >There are six communication area networks which, via 3000 different >> >signals, generate 300MB of data per second (over 100GB of data per hour). >> > >> >Hameedi claims the new GT employs 10 million lines of ???mission >> >critical??? software code, three million more than the new Boeing 787 >> >dreamliner and eight million more than an F22 fighter jet - though one >> >could argue that more code isn???t necessarily a good thing. -- Chris Johnson p 02 6282 1993 m 0401 498 684 e [email protected] _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
