This. Whether or not we need more professional devs is beside the point. At coder dojos, for example, they're not teaching design patterns, they're teaching the

This. Whether or not we need more professional devs is beside the point. At coder dojos, for example, they're not teaching design patterns, they're teaching the basics - assignment, loops, conditionals - the kinds of things that allow you to automate computation in other fields of endeavour