I agree with your hatred of the term "coding". It rings like "typing" or having typist skills. It demeans the many years of time it takes to learn real softwa

I agree with your hatred of the term "coding". It rings like "typing" or having typist skills. It demeans the many years of time it takes to learn real software engineering skills, which includes proper software requirements analysis, design, testing, packaging, and deployment. I work with a bunch of data analysts teaching them programming for data analytics and machine learning. If I use the term "software development" the managers think it is out of scope for their job ("that's something IT does, not our group"). But when I use the term "coding" the managers don't seem to mind. They need to grow up and appreciate what it takes to develop analytics software. I like what you said "apprenticeships at body shops isn't going to create software developers, it's just going to create terrible software with obvious rot and decay as the years go own." These junior apprentices produce stuff that barely works, and it is rotting crap whose "technical debt" never disappears, and eventually requires a senior software engineer to rewrite it after it fails.