[thelist] Teach Old Programmer New Tricks

[Will]

Perhaps something with a single language focus like mobile native app development would be 'easier'? The web seems like a wide open world with a ton of possible paths. Objective-c is pretty singularly focused - at least in terms of iOS tutorials and the like. You learn one language and end up with an app. Same for android/java. 



On Jan 27, 2011, at 3:48 PM, Martin Burns <martin at easyweb.co.uk> wrote:

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> On 27 Jan 2011, at 22:28, Hassan Schroeder wrote:
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>>> Any other thoughts before I tell him it doesn't sound to me like it makes sense?
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>> The "systems analyst" part could be helpful if he wanted to get into
>> something less technical like "program management". Yeah, that's a
>> crowded field, too, but it's OK for someone "older" with general biz
>> knowledge and skills. Just a thought.
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> Yeah, I'd go down that route (BA, rather than Program Management, which does unfortunately take a chunk of very specific hands-on experience - while you *could* manage small projects quickly with some general nous and maturity, programs are a different game), as being able to span the technical/non-technical gap, with a good head for business process will always be useful.
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> Generally (and it's maybe heresy), I'd not advise *anyone* to focus on HTML/CSS as a *goal*, unless they really do have the time and focus to become a guru. And even then, you'd want *some* functional development, whether it's PHP or JS, to be able to back it up. Most of the easy stuff is now doable by frameworks; most of the hard stuff requires a  degree of guruhood.
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> Now some of the web UI frameworks, otoh that let you bind to application logic... 
> http://ukijs.org/
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> Cheers
> Martin
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