The most valuable skill is now the ability to learn new things quickly. And, like you said, pattern matching with your experience. The "Learning how to learn" course on Coursera makes this point well too.
Great article - continually impressed with your writing!
the problem is that there's a lot of people who equate skills with technologies. this post is the same, lists all those random marketing names as if they'd constitute knowledge. all of those technologies come and go, but there's not much new under the sun. if instead of learning how to debug one focuses on "APIs", this knowledge will go down the drain quickly. and it seems to me that young people (lol) don't really know how to debug anymore
The most valuable skill is now the ability to learn new things quickly. And, like you said, pattern matching with your experience. The "Learning how to learn" course on Coursera makes this point well too.
Great article - continually impressed with your writing!
Great piece! been thinking about this, recently i've been reading https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/ and makes you realize that behind the hype and the infinite framework/tech-stack there's always the same basic principles.
it gets a lot simpler when you realize all that tchotchke is just Unix processes bound to a port
Agree! IT was always overwelming but nowadays is even more. As a teacher I think we should keep it simple, but no hiding complexity, managing complexity, expectations, information... I love the Python article also, great slides!! I left you here how I think I should teach IT in 2020: https://isaacgonzalez.eu/blog/2020/05/12/do-you-want-to-learn-computer-science-a-teachers-guide/
the problem is that there's a lot of people who equate skills with technologies. this post is the same, lists all those random marketing names as if they'd constitute knowledge. all of those technologies come and go, but there's not much new under the sun. if instead of learning how to debug one focuses on "APIs", this knowledge will go down the drain quickly. and it seems to me that young people (lol) don't really know how to debug anymore