While it is true that programming can be highly paid. in most organization that i know of, programmer is a deadend position, you pretty much stuck. More often than not the only way to get promoted is to go to management.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:31 PM, red1 <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/3/11 8:54 AM, Boh Yap wrote: > >> hi all, >> >> here's another rant, its directed at our Educational system, but done >> in a less brutal way than the 'last' nuclear exchange between Red and >> Rafe ;-) Sabar guys you both got your points, .... >> >> Have a read and pls comment... >> >> Critique of MQA Computing Program Document >> > Hm.. Boh, you also losing your kungfu touch, above you commend both sides, > not making known your own stand. Playing it safe by not playing to the > gallery at all :) > > Since you ask me to comment in your MQA analysis, so here goes. > 1. Why analysed something that is more than 30 years old? The topics > sounded familiar and quite inferior to what i learnt in IDPM, London (via > Goon's Institute KL) in 1981! There i learnt Programming, Data Structures, > Flowcharting, Intermediate Accounts, Communications and Systems Analysis all > in 2 years. I got employed at end of 1st year by Dataprep in 1982. > > 2. About teaching ERP in colleges, if they just teach Accounting well, > should be enough. Don't make the kids start cursing you in their facebooks. > > 3. About programming as a highly paid skill, as compared to Systems A & > Design, the later should be true as A&D precedes form, but the concept those > days is wrong today. What, if any design kids should know today is > encapsulated in OO. That is the present, almost going past. Certainly not > future. > > Finally thanks Boh for your thesis, as you finally nailed this into the > coffin. Malaysia's future is dead. It's knowhow menu is Vasco Da Gama's. > > Wonder if MDec employs such grads and in what numbers. Rafe, any stats? > > -- > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 > > MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification > http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert > -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert
