Apple CEO Tim Cook , left, and WWDC 2019 scholar Liam Rosenfeld via TechCrunch
"I don't think a four year degree is necessary to be proficient at coding" says Cook. "I think that's an old, traditional view. What we found out is that if we can get coding in in the early grades and have a progression of difficulty over the tenure of somebody's high school years, by the time you graduate kids like Liam, as an example of this, they're already writing apps that could be put on the App Store."
"I think what it is is they haven't embraced mobility. They haven't embraced machine learning. They haven't embraced AR. All of this stuff is a bit foreign in some way. They're still fixing employees to a desk. That's not the modern workplace," Cook says. "People that graduate from high school and get a little experience under their belt can do quite well in this job."
Earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook visited an Apple Store in Orlando, Florida to meet with 16-year-old Liam Rosenfeld, one of 350 scholarship winners who will be attending Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference next month.Echoing comments he shared with the Orlando Sentinel , Cook told TechCrunch 's Matthew Panzarino that it is "pretty impressive" what Rosenfeld is accomplishing with code at such a young age, serving as a perfect example of why he believes coding education should begin in the early grades of school.Cook made similar comments during an American Workforce Policy Advisory Board meeting at the White House earlier this year.While in Florida, Cook attended a conference that saw SAP and Apple announce an expanded partnership focused on new enterprise apps taking advantage of technologies like machine learning and augmented reality.Despite all of the technological advancements in recent years, Cook told Panzarino that many businesses have not "changed a whole lot" and are "still using very old technology." With more solutions like those from SAP and Apple, and tech-savvy employees of the future like Rosenfeld, that could change.The full interview can be read on TechCrunch with an Extra Crunch subscription or in the Apple News app with an Apple News + subscription.WWDC 2019 begins June 3 in San Jose.
petesapai on May 10th, 2019 at 21:32 UTC »
Programmers without a degree usually get paid less. Apple is fed up with salary of coders. You do the math.
http://fortune.com/2015/09/03/koh-anti-poach-order/
TheBestOpinion on May 10th, 2019 at 19:32 UTC »
I learned to code very early and I thought I was proficient. But college changed the game for real. I learned to think in code without college, but the truth is, alone, I would never have learned a lot of important stuff. Partly (mostly) because that would have required more willpower than I had, just to go out and inquire these things myself.
Data structures, concurrent programming, distributed systems, the shell, embedded systems, networking stuff, the more advanced database stuff (from joining to the gnarly things)
So I'd say that college sure enabled me to go well farther than I would have gone by myself. Go to college if you think it makes sense to do it.
pantsfish on May 10th, 2019 at 18:58 UTC »
Most degree-holders would tell you that as well