> Because it's marketed to parents and governments as "skills for the future" or "necessary for a modern workforce". It is, you can get both of those things be

> Because it's marketed to parents and governments as "skills for the future" or "necessary for a modern workforce". It is, you can get both of those things because programming teaches you how to really think, and that skill is transferable to anything you do. It's like akin to reading, it's a useful skill to learn no matter your eventual chosen profession. It doesn't have to lead to a programming job. > Literacy is not vocational: it can be applied in many contexts-everyone uses reading all the time. Arithmetic is also plenty useful. Programming is the same and belongs in that list with literacy and math.