The first line of the article is “Programming and computer science are all the rage these days.“ What a brilliant promotion for the movie “An American Pickle”

The first line of the article is “Programming and computer science are all the rage these days.“ What a brilliant promotion for the movie “An American Pickle” where a pickle worker falls into a vat and is preserved for a hundred years, waking up in a new and strange land called the future. Very subtle... The basic question is still valid, in spite of the 1990s copy. Yes, speaking purely to a student of the humanities not a potential IT worker, you should learn to cut code. But not necessarily to total fluency unless you are an anthropologist studying nerd culture. “Observe the coder in his native habitat...” No, you shouldn’t learn to develop software, outside of a few DIY type projects for home use as a hobbyist.