How Collaboration and Education Can Help Close the IBM Z and COBOL Skills Gap
By TechChannel / February 7, 2022
Dr. Cameron Seay on how we should be presenting COBOL and IBM Z to students; Herb Daly and Henri Kuiper on their Advent of Code challenge leaderboard
Dr. Cameron Seay, for example, has taught both COBOL and IBM Z at different schools. It’s not that no one is interested in learning about them; it’s just that the information needs to be presented to them in a way that highlights competitive advantages.
Beyond education—fostering a collaborative, fun community that encourages newcomers to join is another must. Take the Advent of Code Challenge, for example—an annual challenge comprised of programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets, all of which can be solved in any programming language participants want to use. Herb Daly and Henri Kuiper even created a leaderboard to increase playfulness and competition during the challenges.
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