On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com>wrote:
Wesley i am keen to get your take on this...is age a factor with regard to entry level in programming?, sorry aki for deviating
@Barrack, thnks for the info. I too have been researching some articles on age and programming and came across one that was a eye opener. It highly suggests that programmers and software engineers have a short career life ( unless you are in a developing country where code as old as 40-50 years can still make headlines... ) similar to a professional sports person. The age of 40 seems to be a downhill trend for programmers as they either end up as management ( which they hate but have no choice ) or the lucky ones who end up as lead programmers for a team etc. I'm curios about something too, on Open Source and schools in Kenya. What linux version is being used, or has someone decided that a certain linux version is the way forward? What about PC-BSD, is this also being used as a learning platform? me thots.. :-) Rgds.