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Excatly. There's a huge difference between "everybody needs to learn to become a professional software developer" and "everyone needs a higher level of software
by panglott 11y ago
Excatly. There's a huge difference between "everybody needs to learn to become a professional software developer" and "everyone needs a higher level of software literacy, including basic coding skills"
Lots and lots of office jobs involve stuff like updating content on a Django app or shoestringing together Excel VBA and Access stuff. There's all kinds of tasks where scripts and low-level automation would be useful.
Now the tools for this tend to be awful and workers tend to be locked out of trying it, but that's another story.
- serge2k 11y agoI would argue that neither of those statements is true. I think this idea that coding is some sort of silver bullet is ridiculous.
- paulcole 11y agoIt's not a silver bullet, but it is a bullet. Coding can't solve every problem, but it can help solve some of them, including some that would be very tedious to solve otherwise.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> I think this idea that coding is some sort of silver bullet is ridiculous. Its not a silver bullet, but it is as a core component of developing of computer literacy, a broadly applicable foundational skill for non-menial jobs in the modern world, even if programming itself isn't a central duty of the job. (In the right context -- though its possible to learn programming without developing much of this -- its also a valuable way, and perhaps the most accessible in terms of providing concrete feedback, to develop technology-neutral systems literacy, which is an even more broadly applicable, foundational skill.)