What new developer would go into mainframe development?

Heck, at this point, what developer who hadn't worked on mainframes before would decide to go into mainframe development?

> Stay clear from hype-driven development.

Man i still remember when it felt like a new js framework was coming out every day

free code camp https://www.freecodecamp.org/

has a pretty good web dev course. Not sure what kind of jobs are around you but i'm sure a number of them are web dev. Personally I think python would be a good first language on top of that, but if you think the market likes php and java, I'd pick java out of those two (I like C# better than java but I learned it because that's what is popular where I am)

I'd say 40k is a bit low for a junior with a degree and the states does pay some of the highest salaries for developers, so not wrong

Honestly if we can reduce the tooling churn for development that sounds great

Man, I wish I actually had a job where I got mentored.

Eugh, annoys me that people talk about entitlement in this case then management is surprised when developers don't stay any longer than 3 years

Man, I wish this is how my last place did it. Instead, if we were getting through 12 we'd commit to 14 and then the dev manager would wonder why stuff wasn't getting done.

Honestly the headline feels like bait. Seems like it explicitly uses the apple card since that card is new and trendy.

Time to check out the article and find out if you were right!

> College was mostly an exercise in self-learning or learning how to learn for me

Definitely agree with this.

I think my data structures professor spent more time talking about chess rather than data structures.