New Article: Computer Science Enrollment is Going Down, and Taking Software Jobs With It

From my new article Computer Science Enrollment is Going Down, and Taking Software Jobs With It:

“How many of us would kill to work with ultra-qualified, talented developers instead of whoever we can find that has a pulse and once wrote an Excel macro for a junior high class project? If Computer Science enrollment continues to drop people will eventually get hired, with or without degrees and regardless of how qualified they are, because companies will be desperate. And then we’ll be stuck working with folks who can’t find their text editor with two hands and an issue of Dr. Dobb’s Journal.”

Read the complete article here.

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