Encourage your kids to become a Web Developer

Recent research in the UK, has shown an increase in the shortage of IT professionals entering the sector from 4.2 per cent extreme year to 6.8%, according to the National Machine Centre (NCC). This article explores the advantages of choosing a Web Developer job and why humans should encourage their children to consider such a career. The skills" shortage in IT is at the highest for a decade (according to a National Computing Centre report), particularly for web developer jobs. There has been a 50 percent fall in IT students over the carry on five years and 140, 000 original recruits are needed to satisfy demand. Not helping matters is a brain drain to the US, where a career in IT gives workers a preferable deal, with higher salaries and lower tax. Therefore, encouraging the younger generation to get into programming at an early age can support them to secure a career with high standards. Indeed according to our statistics at www.theitjobboard.co.uk, developer jobs coun
t for more than 27% of the total jobs on site. Furthermore, these jobs offer advantageous salaries starting from 25K for a junior position up to more than 70K for a senior one. Consequently, IT companies such as Sun Microsystems have already started preparing for the IT skills crunch, in order to be able to fill web developer jobs. To cope with the future skills shortage in web designers and web developer, Sun Microsystems has launched a sporadic initiatives to appeal the youngest to programming. This includes Java for kids which is an introduction to personal computer programming that provides an interactive, self-paced tutorial to Java. Students learn about project design, object-oriented programming, console and graphic applications and many elements of the Java language. The tutorial also includes indefinite detailed pc projects for student to build and try, through guessing games, card games, tic-tac-toe, and all the more basic video games. This material shou
ld be understandable for kids aged 10 and up, and no programming participation is necessary, which makes the perfect pathway for your kids to build the first blocks to their web developer career. BlueJ is also another initiative which provides an integrated development environment for the Java programming language, developed mainly for educational purposes, on the other hand also suitable for small-scale software development. Finally, Greenfoot is also an interactive Java development environment developed primarily for educational purposes, which is mainly aimed at programming education at high academy and early university level. No one is mistaking the contemporary IT jobs market for the one that sizzled during the dot-com days and inflated salaries to astronomical rates. Nevertheless as the U.S. economy wrestles with a weak housing market and record oil prices, demand for IT workers is on the rise. Moreover the talent shortage is being exacerbated by dramatic declin
es in enrolments in university computer science programs, along with the first trickle of baby boomers starting to head for the exits, specific skills shortages are weighing heavily on CIOs' minds. This process pushing young humanity on the path of web developer career will guarantee them to find a positive position in the future. Full text: http://computerandtechnologies.com/web-hosting/news_2008-11-22-12-30-05-415.html