Re: Getting Young People into IBM i

LOL!

Well, judging from people I work with a lot of them don't even know how a
job log or library list works... much less RPG. I had one today even ask
me "what's FTP"? So maybe it's the wrong question being asked.

Maybe it should be: "How do we make programmers instead of coders?"

Programmers adapt with language syntax and environment and know logic.

Coders.. well, code and are usually dependent on the platform, framework or
language at hand.. (I personally hate the term "coder").

Programmers take logic courses, don't care what language they use, etc. If
I had to list all the languages I used in college and work we'd be here a
while.


On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 2:16 PM Jack Woehr via MIDRANGE-L <
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yes yes yes

And where would we be without Brad Stone?!

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 1:14 PM Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And that's the answer.
* I wouldn't work with the system had I not gotten my first internship

and

used RPG. * I actually preferred COBOL back in
college.. haha!

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 1:39 PM Jack Woehr via MIDRANGE-L <
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Heard at NEUG:

Questioner: “How do we bring young people into the platform?”
Scott Klement: "Hire them."
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