Studies have found that programmers continue to improve their skills even years

ByILikeSpoons

Although there is the idea that "older programmers can not keep up with the rapid changes in technology and get out of software development"North Carolina State UniversityResearch found that older programmers are more knowledgeable than younger colleagues in new software platforms and programming skills continue to progress.

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http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/wms-murphyhill-age-2013/


Researchers on programming technologyKnowledge communityIsStack OverflowWe surveyed by seeing the profile of more than 80,000 programmers. Stack Overflow is also evaluating questions and answers by programmers, but users who have made good questions and answers have added points and it turns out that users with higher scores are more familiar with programming.


First, researchers compare scores for each age of users. When I saw a user individually, I understood that the evaluation of each person increased with age until 40's. It was said that there was not enough data to conclude with respect to older users.

Next, I examined the range of interest concerning programming of each person by seeing the difference in the number of themes that asked / answered. Then, programmers aged 15 to 30 years had very few fields in the theme, but it turns out that the width of the field spreads steadily in the 30s and 50s.

ByWiertz Sébastien

Finally, researchers compared programmers over the age of 37 with programmers under the age of 37 in knowledge of new technologies within the last 10 years, and veteran programmers on iOS and Windows Phone 7 are more than young programmers Compared, I understood that the amount of knowledge is quite large. And about the amount of knowledge in other fields, there was no big difference between young programmers.

ByExtra Ketchup

Emerson Murphy-Hill, who conducted the research, said: "We investigated the perception that older programmers can not keep up with the rapid changes in technology, and in reality revealed that older programmers are talking about changes in the software field I wanted it. " This data "In some cases, older programmers dominate" is considered to help eliminate prejudice against older programmers.

The details of the paper can be seen from the following PDF file.

(PDF file)Microsoft Word - cr1_MSR2013_IsAgeRelatedToProgrammingKnowledge.docx - msr13.pdf
http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/ermurph3/papers/msr13.pdf