Those skills that you called unpractical are actually valuable in today's service economy, and helped me put food on the table for years as well as pay for high

Those skills that you called unpractical are actually valuable in today's service economy, and helped me put food on the table for years as well as pay for higher education. Then no matter what activity you pick in life, being self-sufficient with regards to presenting and illustrating your ideas or doing some basic marketing is always valuable. Same with code. Even if you do not plan to be a programmer, having a basic understanding what programming is can help you in interdisciplinary settings. Written questions and diagrams are a good idea. But tests can be constructed in many ways. For alternative based questions grading with computer can be more productive and less error-prone, freeing the teacher to focus in more important tasks such as preparing lessons.