> In a more practical sense, I'd say no, because there's not easy places to apply basic programming skills. I'd argue that the reason there aren't many places

> In a more practical sense, I'd say no, because there's not easy places to apply basic programming skills. I'd argue that the reason there aren't many places to apply programming skill is because most people don't know programming. If you know almost everyone knows basic programming then you can build out public API's for almost every service taking code, and that would deliver tremendous value to everyone and coding would suddenly become a must for all people to learn since it helps so much. But as is we spend trillions of dollars worth of programmer man hours trying to build out non-programming API's for doing simple tasks and wouldn't be needed if the target audience just had minimal levels of programming knowledge.