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by 908B64B197 2014 days ago
> industry is crying out for more people

At a certain price-point they are.

> Learning to program is more like an old fashioned trade than a profession

Sure. Learning to code is pretty much a trade at this point. Engineering isn't. There's a pretty big gap between a real engineer and someone who "learned to code" in high school.