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I'll be the odd man out amongst the responses and agree with you. Not everyone needs/wants to be a software engineer or other kind of computer savvy person. Th
by decafninja 4y ago
I'll be the odd man out amongst the responses and agree with you.
Not everyone needs/wants to be a software engineer or other kind of computer savvy person. The majority of people get along with life just fine these days with just a smartphone and/or tablet as their only computing device.
Now the caveat to this is, what if your child is the next potential super rockstar ninja pirate 100x SWE in waiting? I suppose there is nothing wrong with trying to get them interested in computers.
I kinda wonder how I would raise my own future kid when I hear stories of superstars in various realms ranging from musicians* to Formula1 drivers, etc. Most of them started extremely young - young enough that the decision to get them involved was their parents', not their own.
* I had a friend who was an absolute kickass cellist. However he claimed he would never advance beyond the ranks of a school music teacher because he started the instrument at age 8 whereas the real talent start before age 5. It boggled my mind.
- schwartzworld 4y ago> Not everyone needs/wants to be a software engineer or other kind of computer savvy person. Most people need to interact with a computer for work or pleasure. Not everybody needs to be able to engineer enterprise grade software, but what's the downside to having everybody be able to write a bash script? Lots of people's jobs could be easier with a little command line fu. We teach lots of core competencies to kids for this reason. You don't need to be a writer to benefit from knowing how to write well, but writing can also help in myriad careers, social settings and even be an artistic outlet. Coding is the same way. I can code for work, but I can also compose music with code or solve puzzles.