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Reading and writing wasn't an essential life skill… up until it was (because our culture and society became a completely writing-based culture). If you agree t
by juliendorra 11y ago
Reading and writing wasn't an essential life skill… up until it was (because our culture and society became a completely writing-based culture).
If you agree that we are going toward (or already are in) a computer-code-based culture and society, then it's quite reasonable to say that programming is an essential life skill.
(That's the idea behind code literacy).
[edit]: Reading and especially writing is hard. We spend years and years learning it, and only a few professionals master it from end to end.
But the collective and individual benefits is huge. Programming seems quite analogous.
- krapp 11y agoI would have to disagree with the premise of "computer-code-based culture" being a thing. It's not a computer-code based culture we're heading towards (or are in) so much as an extension of writing-based culture no longer based on printed media. Knowledge of code is no more necessary a skill to interact with computers than knowledge of leading, kerning and CMYK is for people reading a newspaper. Most people basically use computers for reading, writing, math and media.