Well, to be fair programming is (currently, at least) an optional skill competing with soccer, guitar, and video games for mind space. Reading is the lowest bar

Well, to be fair programming is (currently, at least) an optional skill competing with soccer, guitar, and video games for mind space. Reading is the lowest bar for practically everything in modern life so there's more tolerance for sub-optimal teaching since we all are willing to hold feet to fire. Until coding is as ubiquitous as reading, we're going to have to do better.