It's a good anecdote, but in some places it tries to generalize a bit too much. This is a person that has an intrinsic interest in science and technology. This

It's a good anecdote, but in some places it tries to generalize a bit too much. This is a person that has an intrinsic interest in science and technology. This is an outlier among the general population. For children who are more attracted to less abstract concepts, or people who just want to find a better job, quick gratification and fast learning cycles are important, which is why front-end web development dominates the curriculum of the short-term courses mentioned in the article. It's a good point though that the industry, by underselling the level of sophistication of CS, might be missing out on people who (like the author of this anecdote) could have the drive and talent to truly succeed, arguably the people who they most eagerly want to make replaceable. >Another issue is that these programs (KodeWithKlossy and SheCodes) only teach "front-end" web development, which is quickly becoming a woman dominated field. Is that good? I don't think so. Historically, when women enter certain fields, it "lowers" the value of it. Front-end development is now seen as "easier" then backend or frontend. There's a danger in seeing this too much from the lenses of gender problems. Frontend development has always been seen as easier than backend, probably only except during the dawn of GUIs, in games, or if you're building React.