My thoughts... It's interesting that popular(ish) Twitter people that are part of #100daystocode (e.g. Cat McGee ) have shown up here on hacker news. It seems l

My thoughts... It's interesting that popular(ish) Twitter people that are part of #100daystocode (e.g. Cat McGee ) have shown up here on hacker news. It seems like 1000s and 1000s are part of this twitter movement. There is good and bad with it. Cat McGee and her ilk, to simplify, are selling programming as a lifestyle. It's not the coding that's the point- it's the opportunities it gives in terms of good jobs, ability to live in foreign countries etc. And they gush over how programming is in fact easy. I can definitely see how programmers might feel uneasy about this trend of tons of people being interested in getting into the industry. Obviously, at some point certain areas are going to be put under a lot of pressure. Potentially. As the above author notes it's a lot harder to work on a fully functioning 100k line webapp/software than a toy website. And from what I see on twitter, most of the drive is on html/CSS/JavaScript learning. But in other ways it's a good thing. Even if you are not a developer - writing code can be a real joy as a hobby. And a bit of coding skills can help people in non-coding jobs. Or just to create some thing small. (disclaimer I'm a data analyst trying to become a data engineer). And the Twitter groups like #100daystocode do expose more people to the fun side of coding. Let's face it most high schools fail at that. On a final point, like writing a novel/script (a demon I know all too well.) there is a dream bring sold that you can live in an exotic location and work remotely. Its more of a realistic dream than writing to be paid, but still people might need to be careful about fools gold.