The article I found is titled “GIS
Jobs of Today: Should you have programming skills?” and can be
found here.
This article takes a look into the GIS
job market with how programming can be a valuable skill and whether
or not education should include programming. Those who posses
competency in a programming language tend to make higher salaries and
are more valuable employees overall. But those to obtain either a
certificate or degree for GIS might not be introduced to any sort of
programming language. The article states that out of 55 departments
that were surveyed, 10% of these required students to take a
programming course. Individual mileage will also vary, depending on
the extent the language such as Python, is taught. At the same time,
education tends to be broad and attempts to cover many subjects to
give their students the most exposure possible. Fine tuning one's
knowledge for Python, for instance, takes plenty of personal
dedication to learn the language. With our experience within this
course, we will only cover the basics and skim the surface of what's
possible with the language. Sure, what we take away will have real
world uses, but proficiency can't come from taking one course. I
found this article interesting since many of us will be taking these
GIS skills to the job market and what's expected of us will vary.
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