I don't like the idea that programming is a vocational skill. Literacy and numeracy aren't. Arts and crafts skills we understand have other uses. Programming i

I don't like the idea that programming is a vocational skill. Literacy and numeracy aren't. Arts and crafts skills we understand have other uses. Programming is great for self expression, exploring new ideas, amusing people. These are great goals for kids. If you teach a kid to program, probably they're gonna put it to use in Minecraft or Roblox, not by writing accounting software. That's good! That's no more professional software development than kids building with Legos are doing engineering.