My oldest daughter is 22 years old. She is completing her studies at Phystech and working as a business analyst. The youngest daughter is 16, and she does not want to go to college at all: she drowns for work experience and independent study.
In Slurme, most have children. And when we discuss teaching development for children and adolescents, opinions range from "let's leave childhood for children" to "any course is better than what is happening in education now."
What position do you occupy?
This is what my colleague, the team lead at Southbridge, has to say. His oldest child is in the 6th grade.
The question is, is the child interested in it? As for me, work must be enjoyable.
And if you answer the question, how promising is IT education, then there is a double feeling. On the one hand, modern IT education, like any other, lags behind reality by about 5 years (which is a colossal abyss for IT), and therefore there is no particular sense from it. On the other hand, higher education provides a large number of additional benefits. In particular, the skill of independent search for information.
If the question is how promising is work in IT, I think: more than. At the same time, I would recommend my child to start with development, since current trends say that in the near future everything will be “like code”, and without the ability to write code, a specialist will not be able to develop in any IT area.
Vladimir Guryanov
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