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I had never touched source code for a program, or even knew where to begin programming until my year of undergrad when my intro to engineering professor started to teach us MATLAB. I had never thought much about it until I began my engineering degree. I agree with the video that more than 25% of schools should offer a programming course for grade-
school students, however I do not think it should be a compulsory course for those students (Chilcott, 2013) . One of the big discussions between my engineering student peers and the administration at my university was the fact that our programming courses did not count toward our foreign language requirement for graduation. While not a problem for all students, some – including myself – were stretched thin as it was, and fitting in a non-engineering related course was difficult without paying for overload credits.
In my career, I certainly do a lot more programming, especially object-oriented programming,
than I ever thought I would. While I was in school, I didn’t love my programming courses, I felt the projects were cheesy, not terribly beneficial, and lacking a real-world application. Hindsight on that is most definitely 20/20 as I am very grateful for what I had to learn in school, even if at the time it felt unimportant. So far in my career, about 50% of my allocation
has been to programming, whether it’s control systems, end-user applications, or databases, I have written many thousands of lines of code. In a manufacturing environment, it’s been more
than useful. On the day-to-day business side, the lack of coding background is very clear. One
of the most glaring examples of this is a former manager at my company would always ask the electrical engineers and programmers ‘Why can we not shorten the debug period of this project to improve the schedule timeline?’, and this always made us laugh. This manager’s lack of knowledge of programming certainly made our lives difficult as we could be pushed by unrealistic timelines, stressing to make sure work gets done to meet an unrealistic schedule. Sometimes we would deliver, sometimes we would not, all due to time constraints. Even if this manager never programmed in their life outside of a course, with even a minor understanding of programming skills they could have the wherewithal to know that not all aspects of program debugging can be shortened to meet a timeline that is too aggressive.
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