Posted on 07/23/2014 11:20:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Bell shaped curves are reality. Blacks and Hispanics simply do not have the same aptitude for technology as Whites and Asian.
Politically correct desires do not change reality.
Why didn't you just do that in the first place? Sheesh! :)
I'm guessing Moebius...
Can you recommend some way to get a child started in coding? I have a twelve year old who I think would be good at it.
Maybe they are too lazy to pursue careers in those fields.
They are under represented for sure but, overly represented in criminal activities.
maybe it’s a culture thing.
+1
Better work on understanding cursive writing before you try tackling nested ifs.
This is not like road construction where you can give certain people a flag to direct traffic and thereby meet your quotas.
Writing software is extremely enjoyable (when it works) and extremely frustrating when it doesn’t. I’ve had situations where it took me days to figure out a problem—most of that time making no apparent progress. But you have to keep at it. Patience and discipline indeed.
Here’s the deal. The computer does not care about your color, sex, height or weight. It’s relentlessly logical. You can code systems that work or you can’t. Unlike in politics, you can’t get your way with a computer by whining or guilt tripping. A computer is a pure color-blind judge of a person’s ability.
Try Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/)
Well duh.
Oh here we go again....
The race-hustlers are never at rest until every Whitey and Jew and Asian is subjugated.
5 Tools to Introduce Programming to Kids
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/05/5-tools-to-introduce-programming-to-kids/
The National Urban League understands reality. They want tech companies to hire blacks who are totally unqualified for the positions they hold, and who are there solely to satisfy quotas.
They want to maximize the number of people who understand that their jobs and economic status are totally dependent upon the Democrats continuing to have the power to force companies to keep them around.
Make sense now?
are there any family members that have developed software? it can be very helpful to talk about it with others
software development is a series of incremental successes built on prior successes. i call them little victories. little functions providing a capability that when combined with others produce something interesting.
goals help. projects and challenges are useful. being able to conceive of the idea properly is usually the major hurdle. few people can develop successful systems off the cuff without a full(ish) design.
one thing i’ve noticed is unlimited game play can eat into development time, which could keep a promising developer from developing their skills.
that being said, for a kid, game development can be exciting enough to keep them focused on the task over time.
as another milestone, if they’ve shown interest and have developed for a while, consider a weekend project to buy the parts for a new computer. then spend the weekend together assembling it and then figuring out how to get the software installed and the system functioning as they’d like. it’s a very good parent-kid project and allows the kid to feel a sense of real world accomplishment once completed.
btw, some of today’s kid friendly tech would be:
1. html/javascript (web pages, fairly simple)
2. c/c++ (core application dev language)
3. java (cross platform dev language)
4. windows (main operating system to learn/understand)
5. linux (primary operating system for most embedded systems)
6. raspberry pi and arduino (very cheap single board computers)
7. ogre (one of the many game dev toolkits)
one of my first projects was a lunar lander program. fairly simplistic game of weaving back and forth to avoid ‘canyon walls’ during a landing. after that, i developed other basic dungeon crawlers like rogue. these systems provide an interesting end goal while yielding some useful technical hurdles. basic graphics, disk i/o, user i/o, timing, database, and AI are just some of the things the dev would touch on while developing such a game.
i hope that helps. drop me a note if you’d like more.
Horsefeathers. The number of "Blacks and Latinos" qualified to knock on that door is miniscule, that's all. I'm a software developer who is regularly involved in hiring. It's brutally hard to find qualified candidates at all, in any color or ethnicity. It's not like we would turn someone away for a dumb reason like race, even if we could get away with it legally.
How many great technical minds are going to come from a culture that only uses math in drug deals and determining who has the biggest wheels on their car?
I can’t even find good sales and marketing people. There’s a reason technical companies recruit from India, China, Pakistan and Russia and it’s not the cuisine.
Excuse me? The only one cutting themselves off from these jobs are those who see getting a good education as acting white.
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