Alex Rozier of Seattle’s KING 5 News couldn’t put it any better than when he wrote, “There are more tech jobs out there than there are qualified people to fill them. That goes double when it comes to code writers.” This is the opening sentence of a recent article titled “Seattle coding school promises you’ll get a job offer.”
Rozier looks at the importance of coding and how schools are making it more of a priority because of the tech job market. He writes, “Coding instructors know that the talent gap is big. That’s why Seattle’s Code Fellows promises you’ll get a job offer within nine months of graduation, because they know there are so many companies looking for this type of employee. Code Fellows opened up in 2013 and has already graduated 340 students. They say that the average salary for their graduates is $75,000 a year. ‘We’re taking people who have raw talent on their own and we’re transforming them into great software developers that can fill the talent gap,’ Code Fellows CEO Kristin Smith said. Smith said learning code is similar to lifting weights. Once you get a basic idea of how it works, the only way you’ll get stronger is if you keep practicing. Smith said they are seeing people of all ages trying their hand at software development.”
Another school has gone as far as to make coding mandatory. Kayleigh Skinner of The Hechinger Report explores this in a recent article titled “Jackson charter school to require coding.” She writes, “Students at Reimagine Prep in Jackson will learn a valuable skill during their first year, one no other school in the state requires students to study: coding. Coding is a process used in computer programming with languages of its own. HTML, JavaScript and CSS can all be used to create websites or applications on a computer. This will be a new concept for students in Mississippi. Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) courses are not popular here: In 2013, just one student in the entire state took the Advanced Placement exam in computer science. In 2012, just 12 percent of students in Mississippi earned a college degree in a STEM field, slightly below the national average of 14 percent for the same year.”
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