There is a juxtaposition in the UK job market. We have millions of people working in low-paid precarious jobs in retail, food service, warehousing etc. while simultaneously companies complain that they cannot recruit into highly-paid, skilled roles due to a lack of candidates.
Given that you can study Introduction to Computer Science from Harvard University, online, for free and in your own time, it seems like the barriers to building skills is lower than ever.
However, many people are put off or intimidated by the idea of studying such a course. My solution to this is some kind of mentoring, either 1-to-1 or more likely in small groups. However, this is very resource intensive for my idea to scale. I'd be very interested to hear how others might approach this, both the mentoring or the underlying encouragement to study.
Given that you can study Introduction to Computer Science from Harvard University, online, for free and in your own time, it seems like the barriers to building skills is lower than ever.
However, many people are put off or intimidated by the idea of studying such a course. My solution to this is some kind of mentoring, either 1-to-1 or more likely in small groups. However, this is very resource intensive for my idea to scale. I'd be very interested to hear how others might approach this, both the mentoring or the underlying encouragement to study.