   Future of Programming Jobs?
  I''m considering writing a resurch paper on the future of programming jobs and I am having trouble finding good sources on this subject.  Do you guys happen to know of any good articles on this subject?What do you guys think about this topic?  Do you think there will still be a strong market for programmers in 10-20 years?  I remember reading somewhere that the number of entry level programming jobs will decrease dramatically in the future because of the advance in technology and computers being able to create the code code themselves much like the way Dreamweaver and Frontpage do for HTML.  Therefore human programmers will only be needed for more specialized cases.   -----------------------------AIM: Trebor DoDHompage: www.airspacedesigns.com
  How ironic... I''m doing my Senior term papaer on a similar subject: "Game Development from past to present to future". Maybe I can get some help from this topic as well as I need some sources to look at... ;  I think the problem is not autocoders but rather programming jobs being outsourced to other countries.When you consider that you can get amazing coders in India at a quarter of the price, it''s not suprising jobs are moving. Programming here will increasingly become a field that only the truly skilled can maintain themselves in. More importantly, you''ll need to have cutting edge skills that simply can''t be outsourced because there''s no one to outsource them to. Your run of the mill entry level programming job will, by my estimation, vanish in the US entirely in the next ten years. ;  **disclaimer**I won''t present any argument either for or against outsourcing in this post.**/disclaimer**That''s a funny catch 22.  Entry level jobs will disappear in 10 to years.  That means one of two things ... that in 20 to 30 years, there won''t be any qualified programmers in the US because no new talent will move into the industry since there''s no entry level jobs.  Or, the concept of all entry level positions being oursourced won''t happen.I think people need to stick with one prediction or the other.  Either every single programming job will move overseas, or it won''t be a huge deal and there will always be some level of opportunity for entry level coders.   Joel Martinezhttp://www.codecube.net/ ;  the thing is, as all the jobs move from one place to another the people in the other place can demand higher and higher wages, so in theory you should hit a point where it will swing back in the other direction... /** It should be noted i never took economics or any class like that at school/uni so that could be utterly wrong **/ ;  Go to Slashdot.org and search for anything related to outsourcing, India, and so on. Your best bet will be in the ''developers'' section. http://developers.slashdot.org/search.pl/. is one of the biggest geek sites around and each story gets dozens of intelligent responses. These guys are really worried about what''s going to happen (and so am I). You''ll find what you need there. ;  While ever Slashdot story gets dozens of intelligent responses, it also gets hundreds of absolutely idiotic ones. Caveat emptor.Whatever happened to American ingenuity and innovation? In the past we innovated our way to the top of various industries; suddenly we get a little competition - on the basis of price alone - and everybody gets shaky? Innovate on the basis of quality, whether in terms of speedy delivery, support, new technology...Anyway, I''ll leave you to your phobias. ;  i never thought of looking on slashdot.  Man I suck at being a geek .  I''ll post any good articles I find here. ;quote:Original post by _the_phantom_  the thing is, as all the jobs move from one place to another the people in the other place can demand higher and higher wages, so in theory you should hit a point where it will swing back in the other direction... /** It should be noted i never took economics or any class like that at school/uni so that could be utterly wrong **/   the problem with that is we are talking about India here, not a country in Europe.  It would take a long time for a country like India''s wages to pass the wages of Americans.  Esspecially when were are only talking about a couple professions (programmers).  If a really really good programmer in India is making $11,000 a year and that same job in America would make over $70,000 it would take many decades before they passed us.  -----------------------------AIM: Trebor DoDHompage: www.airspacedesigns.com;  As I see it the major companies will be the ones outsourcing, so the only way for entry level coders to get in on the game would be to make their own game or form their own studios.Most games studios have fairly good work ethics and wont even think about laying off their close friends just to save some money. So my guess is the games industry wont suffer too much from this outsourcing nonsense.Concerned entry level coder working his first job.... 