Let's be honest: programming and another field of expertise are not mutually exclusive, just like how being proficient in English is not exclusive to whatever o

Let's be honest: programming and another field of expertise are not mutually exclusive, just like how being proficient in English is not exclusive to whatever other job it is you're doing. The longer people treat it that way the more money they will continue to leave on the table for these Google/Facebook engineers. You don't have to be a master programmer, just like you don't need to do four years in college studying English, but unlike English, most non-technical professionals still have absolutely no idea how a computer works even though the world revolves around it. If any universal second language is important, it's not English, it'll be a programming language.