Re: What's the median age of the developers in your shop?

Seems to me, programming is programming, as long as you keep within a particular language type (procedural, OO, functional, etc.). You really only need to know procedural and OO (which is pretty common) to cover many languages. The syntax differences aren't that big a deal as long as you have a good reference manual. I don't restrict myself to any language.

Mark Murphy
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-----Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
To: "Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 06/12/2015 01:42PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] What's the median age of the developers in your shop?

It seems one could generalize the question about technologies and developer age.

What proportion of traditional RPG/COBOL/CL/DDS IBM i developers are adding web and mobile skills to their skillsets (e.g., PHP, Java, Node.JS, .NET, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript)?

Is there an age difference between those who are adding web and mobile skills to their skillsets and those who are not?

Are there traditional IBM i developers making an exclusive switch to web and mobile development? (That is, developers that stop doing RPG/COBOL/CL/DDS and start doing only PHP, Java, Node.JS, .NET, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript.)

Is there an age difference between those making the switch and those not making the switch?

It seems there are lots of ways to slice this particular pie.

Thanks,
Kelly


-----Original Message-----
From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Pavlak
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 12:05 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] What's the median age of the developers in your shop?

Fair enough. Add in any cross platform open source solution here...

Mike Pavlak
Cell: (408)679-1011 Office: (708)233-5880


-----Original Message-----
From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Turner
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 1:11 AM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] What's the median age of the developers in your shop?

Ours is dropping without a line of PHP in sight :). When the development
platform includes JavaScript (and node.js), HTML, Java etc as well as RPG they no longer feel like they have joined a dinosaur refuge.

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On 12 Jun 2015, at 01:21, Mike Pavlak <mike.p@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

It seems that many of the IBM i shops that get touched with PHP, the
median age drops. Maybe we'll add this question to our annual survey.

Mike Pavlak
Cell: (408)679-1011 Office: (708)233-5880

-----Original Message-----
From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan
Andelin
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 4:24 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] What's the median age of the developers in your
shop?

46 is the average. I know you asked for median, it's just I wanted to
say that I'm above average ;-)


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Our shop has a mix. I am 54 years old, and there are a few developers
older than me. We have a couple of developers right out of college in
their early 20s. We trained the college grads on the IBM i ourselves.
Most of our developers are in-between these two age groups.

Thanks,
Kelly


-----Original Message-----
From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim
Oberholtzer
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 2:34 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'; Web Enabling the IBM i
(AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: [WEB400] What's the median age of the developers in your shop?

Cross posted on Web400:



What would you say is the median age of the developers (regardless of
title
- if they write code they're developers for this question) in your

shop?

Is the group getting older, younger, or staying about the same?



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Jim Oberholtzer

Chief Technical Architect

Agile Technology Architects



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