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Not really. The problem isn't coding or not coding or whatever. It's the problem of expressing complex logic and calculations to meet your ends. If you can't
by redleggedfrog 6y ago
Not really.
The problem isn't coding or not coding or whatever. It's the problem of expressing complex logic and calculations to meet your ends. If you can't express those ideas on a computer then you're not going to get anywhere making software.
The problem is that kind of thinking is hard, and requires the use of something more complex than the no-code tools available now or in the foreseeable future. The nifty part about programming is the concepts are transferable to other areas. No-code tools generally don't offer that - you learn how to do Minecraft or Excel, but then when you're out of that tool your skills don't apply. I see this with young people frequently now. For example, a bunch of Excel VBA functions that do essentially the same thing but with a number in their name to determine some functionality. When asked why they don't they just pass the number as a parameter to a single function the answer is that's too difficult and what they have works fine. This is from a recent graduate in engineering.
Making software without coding doesn't really do anything but let you assemble pre-made parts. That's fine for some relatively simple thing, but will never give you the power of coding.
- reaperducer 6y agoIt's the problem of expressing complex logic and calculations to meet your ends This transcends programming. It is fundamental to basic success in life. You have to know how to form ideas, express those ideas, and then act on those ideas. I had a very little bit of U.S. Army training. (Nice people, turned out not to be my thing.) One of the things that we were taught is that a big reason some armies are more successful than others is because some train their soldiers to think, others train them to blindly follow orders. Another arena where we see this is education. There is no shortage of people graduating from high school and college who can pass written exams through memorization. But there is a massive shortage of people graduating from high school and college who can think.