tensazangetsu20:
Yeah, I wont advise anyone to learn to code anymore. The best skill for a Nigerian to learn now is farming especially with how the government is pumping money into the agricultural sector. You can pick up a lot of skills like weeding, planting, ploughing, tractor and okada riding alongside.

tensazangetsu20:
Yeah, I wont advise anyone to learn to code anymore. The best skill for a Nigerian to learn now is farming especially with how the government is pumping money into the agricultural sector. You can pick up a lot of skills like weeding, planting, ploughing, tractor and okada riding alongside.

Thermodynamics:
Hello, I saw this guy's video on YouTube who talked about how the field of
software development is now oversaturated with millions of Indians and just people in general from both 3rd world and 1st world countries rushing in and learning how to code, creating a huge amount of competition

Another major point out there is that the entry barrier for a software developer is very low, anybody from any field can become a programmer, someone with a degree in theater art for instance can learn how to code and become a competition for you who has a computer science degree, I personally have a child hood friend who studied history in the University and is now employed as a software developer. In some cases there are even people who have gotten employed as a software developer with no undergraduate degree.
It's just like a field for everyone.


Also, a point the YouTube guy hited is the fact that machine learning and artificial intelligence is taking over, most of the jobs that usually need to be manually done by a software developer can now be automated and done with some software that can be operated by anyone with just some basic computer skills.

I fear for the future or this field,
it seems like in a not so distant future having a skill in software development would be as common as having a skill in Microsoft word or Excel.


Here is the YouTube link if you want to watch the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwbM63-LFD4


I'm not here to discourage anyone, just think for yourself, the floor is open for educative conversations.

ThoughtOfYou:
To show you how people all over the world are scrambling for survival. It's never easy even in EasyLand.

Raheeqilmaktoom:


People still listen to this guy? Ex Google ex Facebook.

Thermodynamics:


Lol, you know him?
His message is just out there for you to think for yourself, and let's be honest, he made some very valid points in that video.

Thermodynamics:
Hello, I saw this guy's video on YouTube who talked about how the field of
software development is now oversaturated with millions of Indians and just people in general from both 3rd world and 1st world countries rushing in and learning how to code, creating a huge amount of competition

Another major point out there is that the entry barrier for a software developer is very low, anybody from any field can become a programmer, someone with a degree in theater art for instance can learn how to code and become a competition for you who has a computer science degree, I personally have a child hood friend who studied history in the University and is now employed as a software developer. In some cases there are even people who have gotten employed as a software developer with no undergraduate degree.
It's just like a field for everyone.


Also, a point the YouTube guy hited is the fact that machine learning and artificial intelligence is taking over, most of the jobs that usually need to be manually done by a software developer can now be automated and done with some software that can be operated by anyone with just some basic computer skills.

I fear for the future or this field,
it seems like in a not so distant future having a skill in software development would be as common as having a skill in Microsoft word or Excel.


Here is the YouTube link if you want to watch the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwbM63-LFD4


I'm not here to discourage anyone, just think for yourself, the floor is open for educative conversations.

tensazangetsu20:
Yeah, I wont advise anyone to learn to code anymore. The best skill for a Nigerian to learn now is farming especially with how the government is pumping money into the agricultural sector. You can pick up a lot of skills like weeding, planting, ploughing, tractor and okada riding alongside.

ConsciousMan01:
just like saying the medical field is oversaturated because of the number of medical doctors we have or the finance industry is saturated because of the number of accountants we produce? No matter how saturated a field is there will always be jobs, what distinguishes you among others is how good you are and how unique you are in your approach to solve problems.. remember among the saturated people, there are lots of quacks who don't know their onions but are just there just to be tagged a programmer, some will die, but the jobs will remain..

kennethfranc:

The act of welcoming strangers should be learnt as well... Just Incase

Raheeqilmaktoom:


Everyone knows him, man's too toxic for my liking. Watching him makes me think he has some sort of disorder.

Besides, there is more to programming than web design and development, and I think that's where the issue is.

Most of the noise and competition is in the basic stuff, there were times I saw ads for jobs in Perl, Pascal and C that pay well and literally not many could do them.

tensazangetsu20:
Yeah, I wont advise anyone to learn to code anymore. The best skill for a Nigerian to learn now is farming especially with how the government is pumping money into the agricultural sector. You can pick up a lot of skills like weeding, planting, ploughing, tractor and okada riding alongside.

Liamm:
this your sarcasm get as e be o . Some people might not actually understand it's sarcasm

Thermodynamics:


You're correct, but there is this thing about machine learning and artificial intelligence, it seems like it keeps erasing the need for writing codes manually, day by day with new inventions popping up.

tensazangetsu20:
Yeah, I wont advise anyone to learn to code anymore. The best skill for a Nigerian to learn now is farming especially with how the government is pumping money into the agricultural sector. You can pick up a lot of skills like weeding, planting, ploughing, tractor and okada riding alongside.

tollyboy5:

Please pin this comment. Most especially the okada riding,
That's a very lucrative job. And learning curve is always shorter and smooth, you dont have to struggle with pointers and reference or algorithm.

Ahuitzotl:
Yeah, it is....Even Secondary schools students are rushing in never mind graduates...those cashing out are the coding bootcamps and whatnot... Overseas, programming is most about innovation, invention,improving productivity and less about employment, small wonder,you see all these tech wonders springing up all over there but what about here?...I started programming as a hobby and still is a hobby even though it pays but most folks aren't learning for hobby's sake.. Everybody is looking at programming as a means to earning some money, it's so bad now, it's now a craze....

tollyboy5:

Please pin this comment. Most especially the okada riding,
That's a very lucrative job. And learning curve is always shorter and smooth, you dont have to struggle with pointers and reference or algorithm.

Raheeqilmaktoom:


Everyone knows him, man's too toxic for my liking. Watching him makes me think he has some sort of disorder.

Besides, there is more to programming than web design and development, and I think that's where the issue is.

Most of the noise and competition is in the basic stuff, there were times I saw ads for jobs in Perl, Pascal and C that pay well and literally not many could do them.

Raheeqilmaktoom:


I don't think learning programming for the sake of making money is wrong. Just make meaning out of it.

If programming no dey pay, I will probably not put in 1/100 of the effort I put.

As for tech progress in the west and 1st world countries, I think it has to do with tech penetration. These people already have systems and very critical infrastructure being managed by tech, you can't compare to we that some of the apps we are building are to a great extent just cosmetics, not being driven by real need for them.

tensazangetsu20:


You get and you eliminate middlemen. Once your harvest don reach 50kg, put it on okada and drive to the market to sell.

Ahuitzotl:
But you have to ask yourself must tech pay for you to have interest in it? If it does then there goes the crux of the matter with oversaturation and whatnot....I don't need to ache about an overcrowded space because the more the merrier and hopefully, we might be in for a strong human intellectual capital base in tech in Nigeria...

Raheeqilmaktoom:


Everyone knows him, man's too toxic for my liking. Watching him makes me think he has some sort of disorder.

Besides, there is more to programming than web design and development, and I think that's where the issue is.

Most of the noise and competition is in the basic stuff, there were times I saw ads for jobs in Perl, Pascal and C that pay well and literally not many could do them.

truthCoder2:


Please which Okada do you recommend for a beginner?

Can i buy a used one? My landlord’s family friend in Ikot-Ekpene has one under the staircase. Can i buy that one as it is cheaper?