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On 2022-08-19 10:41, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-08-18 at 15:52 -0700, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> 
>> David,
>> 
>> You provide a bunch to think about.
>> 
>> What does this have to do with Linux?  We are on a Linux list and I
>> would guess most are not going to retool.
>> 
>> I'm 66 and do not think I will retool, so I am looking at some simple
>> things that might make my life better while we enter a period of 
>> chaos. 
>> I am a PHP programmer and I know less about Linux than I would like 
>> to. 
>> For me the opportunities have to be in the realm of LAMP/LEMP.
>> 
>> PHP is so ingrained that it will be around for decades.  Eventually it
>> will go the way of COBOL... AND COBOL is still around.  I think a 
>> person
>> could make a career being a COBOL developer.
>> 
>> So I think the question is what are the opportunities for the Linux
>> admins and the associated technologies?
> 
> What I'm personally doing is developing a Troubleshooters.Com HTML/CSS
> subsite in
> preparation to teach online HTML/CSS classes to people who:
> 
> 1) Understand that HTML, DOM and CSS are the basis of web
> presentation, regardless
> of higher layer tools used,
> 
> 2) Want a teacher instead of just taking a programmed online course,
> 
> 3) Don't want to pay the price of coming to a face to face class.
> 
> 

Very nice!! Based on what I am reading and hearing I think there will be 
continued demand for this type of learning.  I think the Universities 
will dry up.  It might take a while.  Looks like a year at ASU is almost 
$13,000 https://admission.asu.edu/aid/resident-first-year  Who can 
afford that?

I first looked at college in 1978 and that year it was $275 a semester 
at the University of Arizona. I ended up going to junior college and it 
was $100 my first semester the spring of 1979.

By 1990 UofA was just over $1000 a semester. 4 times what it was just 12 
years prior.

When I was first exposed to programming in 1983 a bachelor's degree was 
required to be a programmer. I think that requirement is long gone.  I 
think employers are looking for just skills.

I think self study is big today.  And if the economy does crash I'm 
thinking that the next generation of programmers will be self thought 
and might just be more inclined to be using Linux.

If what I am hearing and reading is that the economy is going to crash 
and inflation is going to stay at 10% for the next 10 years, I think the 
world will look and feel a lot different 10 or 12 years from now.

So doing what you are doing, Steve, should pay dividends for years.





> SteveT
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