BearItAll wrote:
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
IT skills shortage -- fact or fiction?
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| More imported workers will be needed and we'll have to send more work
| overseas to outsourcers... Baloney! The software doesn't know, of
| course, that someone with good Windows administration skills can learn
| Linux skills to become the new Linux administrator who's desperately
| needed.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/0/E5F071C651225E16CC257196001A0BF6?OpenDocument
It's tricky this, because it will cause arguments. But my experience of NT
types coming into UNIX or Linux shows that they struggle a great deal.
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Retraining students that learnt on one of those courses to work on Linux is
not going to be easy at all. They will not learn more as they work, they
will learn how to put more of it into practice, but if something breaks
outside of that small experience, then its yet another call out job.
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It's not just these courses though, it's the way schools teach about
computers. In the early 1980s, schools taught computing, they taught
what a computer was, what an operating system was, what an application was.
Later in that decade it became compulsory to teach all students computer
literacy, so schools dropped the computing classes and started teaching
which buttons to press to change the pretty pictures on screen.
We used to regularly get school leavers coming for job interviews
already proficient in two or more programming languages, and often
having built their own computer from a kit.
Now? Now they know how to type dozens of emoticons, but have no idea why
they were invented. They can write a document in word, but only print
to the default printer. If you ask them what parts make up a computer,
they'll say the hard drive, keyboard, mouse and screen. Bah!
Sorry, rant over.
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