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This advice is as good as someone saying "please don't learn to play music". The analogy is quite strong, here - perhaps more than the author realizes. I get

This advice is as good as someone saying "please don't learn to play music". The analogy is quite strong, here - perhaps more than the author realizes. I get the basic point about not expecting just pick up a book or two and crash the gates, overnight. But there's something fundamentally disheartening about a statement whose core message boils down to: "Don't try".

ThomPete 11y ago
Exactly. Coding is one of the first really really important industries which have as much foundation outside academia as it does inside to allow for people to become masters beyond any comparable education the might take. It's so important that even learning to pseudo code is going to take you a very very long way. Code is IMO language. It's the language if you'd like of the future, how cliché that might sound. Understanding even the basics of code (as of music) is almost of value way beyond becoming an expert in the field.