Are programmers "supply falls short of demand"?

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Started by Challenger17 March 25, 2004 09:05 AM

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March 25, 2004 01:23 PM

quote:Original post by nonpop
So it''s just like math. Yet, for some reason, most of the pupils in our school take the path with less math and more languages and such. Shouldn''t languages (not the programming ones ) be harder to learn due to their huge word lists and all the exceptions their grammar have..?

But in math there''s generally one right answer, whereas people can rely on their BS skills to get them through some other courses. So math is generally more critically graded, but you might be able to write a 10-page crap essay that won''t get picked over as closely.

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Imperil

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March 25, 2004 01:50 PM

quote:Original post by Challenger17
just curious.
in a game company, generally speaking, the employers can always be diveded into two kinds of people: technical employers & artistic employers. i guess technical employers is harder to hire than those artistic ones because there are fewer people who like programming than those who like art.

the situation may be different in various countries/regions. what about the situation in US & Canada?

thx!

[edited by - Challenger17 on March 25, 2004 10:05:35 AM]

Actually in the US today your quote would actually be "demand falls short of supply" and programmers are losing jobs by the dozen.

An estimated 350,000 developers are up to get cut this year alone in the US.

Also people in design, 3d modelling, and animation are now making a lot more money and are in higher demand than programmers.

[edited by - Imperil on March 25, 2004 2:52:44 PM]

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March 25, 2004 09:14 PM

quote:Original post by Imperil
Also people in design, 3d modelling, and animation are now making a lot more money and are in higher demand than programmers.

but people on www.cgtalk.com don't say so. they said:" nowadays, everyone wants to be an animator." and the job situation seems very hard for them. i heard from one guy who said in his 30-students animation class, only 10 of them got a job after graduation.

sorry i had no idea about the amount of developers in US.

[edited by - Challenger17 on March 25, 2004 10:15:16 PM]

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