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feedback charity teaches programming
There are perhaps 700 million rural chinese, teach 1000 of them to computer program, then politely ask the employed ones to donate to the charity that taught them programming, causing 2000 programmers on the next iteration; repeat | |
I cannot imagine what the actual numbers would be, but
a
charity that rescues people's lives so they become
computer programmers then, on employment of their
graduates, politely asks the graduates to donate to the
system could continuously double the output of
programmers.
I know this
sounds a little like the private university
system
yet I have not heard of Harvard with something near a 20
billon endowment making an effort to educate a mere 20
million high-testing developing worlders simultaneously,
then asking the employed graduates to donate.
Also, as a bonus the halfbakery might gain more users.
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Don't they have a thing called "government" to do this ? You
know, it collects "taxes" to pay for "education" ? |
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The idea seems strangely familiar ... |
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[beanangel] If the title was the summary and summary as first paragraph, then you could use your cleverness to add a hooking title. Iterative Grad, Exponential Gifting. I'm sure you could come up with something better. |
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... perhaps even including an actual new idea ... ? |
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Which would be more important? the new idea or the clever/entertaining grammar construct. Yeah, I know .... both. |
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//Everyone who knows how to program can be profitably employed as a programmer// |
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Pardon my ignorance on the topic, but does the world need umpteen thousand more programmers? |
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I wonder if there's that much market for code, and if there would be a glut of programmers with little to do. |
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There is, I think, (based on an absurdly small sample), an
increasing expectation that people in *other* jobs will also be
able to program a bit. |
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For comparison, imagine someone in 1920 saying "I don't think I'll
learn to drive a car; how many more chauffeurs does the world
need?" |
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Abstraction is the new black. |
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I know what you mean, [Ian], but I think that's the tail end of a
trend which has been going on since the fifties, and may soon run
out of steam. Well, we can hope. |
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I don't think practical skills are dying quite like that - rather
they are changing, so there is always a current 'skill set'
among teenagers/20-somethings. So, in the 1950's and
1960's it might be how to repair a car, in the 1970's,
consumer electronics, in the 1980's programming, in the
1990's web development, etc. |
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