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I have often seen it pitched as "Software engineers make a lot of money! Everyone should learn to code!". It's not quite an explicit link, but it's often strong

by Kalium 11y ago

I have often seen it pitched as "Software engineers make a lot of money! Everyone should learn to code!". It's not quite an explicit link, but it's often strongly implied.

gremy0 11y ago
I don't see why, it would just look silly if it was framed that way for anything else. "Mathematicians make a lot of money! Everyone should learn to count!" "Authors make a lot of money! Everyone should learn to write!" "Cartographers make a lot of money! Everyone should learn to read a map!" "Micheal Phelps got a lot of Olympic gold medals! Everyone should learn to swim!"
caseysoftware 11y ago
And all the studies showing software developers or "IT people" make the most money. Individuals can understand nuance, people don't. I'm reminded of that exchange from Men In Black. J (Will Smith) insists that people will understand about aliens, K (Tommy Lee Jones) disagrees: J: "Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it." K: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
dragonwriter 11y ago
To be fair, while the push from some corners of academia and some other places for everyone learning programming/program design is not motivated that way, the push from tech industry capitalist for widening the base of skilled developers is exactly that (and not so that more people can make lots of money, but so that software development labor, due to increased supply, is cheaper). And its pretty much that tech industry capitalist push that has driven the language of "learn to code" rather than "learn to program".

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I have often seen it pitched as "Software engineers make a lot of money! Everyone should learn to code!". It's not quite an explicit link, but it's often strong

by Kalium 11y ago

I have often seen it pitched as "Software engineers make a lot of money! Everyone should learn to code!". It's not quite an explicit link, but it's often strongly implied.

gremy0 11y ago
I don't see why, it would just look silly if it was framed that way for anything else. "Mathematicians make a lot of money! Everyone should learn to count!" "Authors make a lot of money! Everyone should learn to write!" "Cartographers make a lot of money! Everyone should learn to read a map!" "Micheal Phelps got a lot of Olympic gold medals! Everyone should learn to swim!"
caseysoftware 11y ago
And all the studies showing software developers or "IT people" make the most money. Individuals can understand nuance, people don't. I'm reminded of that exchange from Men In Black. J (Will Smith) insists that people will understand about aliens, K (Tommy Lee Jones) disagrees: J: "Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it." K: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
dragonwriter 11y ago
To be fair, while the push from some corners of academia and some other places for everyone learning programming/program design is not motivated that way, the push from tech industry capitalist for widening the base of skilled developers is exactly that (and not so that more people can make lots of money, but so that software development labor, due to increased supply, is cheaper). And its pretty much that tech industry capitalist push that has driven the language of "learn to code" rather than "learn to program".