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> Apple CEO Tim Cook says there’s a “mismatch” between the skills learned in college and the skills that businesses need, especially when it comes to coding. [emphasis added]

So, it's fine when it's Tim Apple saying this! What happened on Twitter was So Unfair and So Sad!

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Ah the English Disease "Employers not wanting to pay for training"

Universitys job isn't to rote teach how to code

True but then we need to treat programming as a trade.

And devaluing our "professional" Job into a lower status and lower paid one why?

Why do a lot of HN commentators fetishize "trade" skills when they have no real idea what they are talking about.

Possibly if your going to target a CS/EE degree you should have bean learning to code from 13 or 14 - in the UK you wont get to study Physics if you haven't specialised in physics and maths at the GCSE and A level.

We do! We have bootcamps and stuff like Code.org now.

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