2009-10-27 #1

Where are the new developers coming from?

My final note from the Water's Power:09 Conference; Robert Johnson, a development manager at one of the London based banks stated that of the people he's looked at in recruitment,

Many… developers don't have a computer science background…

which makes it hard for them to write code for both distributed computing platforms and multi-threaded CPU systems.

It seems this is a reflection of the trends I have written about at on my old sun blog, tagged 'university' and more importantly at this site, in an article called British Higher Education. Given a choice between studying something easy or something hard, now that they have to pay a lot, students and their families choose the easy route. A further cause is the dead hands on the school IT curriculum design and the gestation period to make changes.