Teaching non-coders to code is not going to produce productive engineers except in the most unusual circumstances. You're introducing people to concepts like a

Teaching non-coders to code is not going to produce productive engineers except in the most unusual circumstances. You're introducing people to concepts like a terminal, a file system, source code, a text editor, variables, subroutines, debugging... After a few weeks, they understand more about what it's like to craft instructions for an incredibly powerful but incredibly stupid machine. That doesn't understand what you want it to do and always takes you literally. After that experience, they understand the rhythm and routines of engineering more intuitively and are better prepared to collaborate effiiciently with engineers.