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No, "learn to code" is now "learn to read". Long ago, people could get work as a scribe or scrivener -- knowing how to read and write was, on its own, enough t
by feoren 4y ago
No, "learn to code" is now "learn to read".
Long ago, people could get work as a scribe or scrivener -- knowing how to read and write was, on its own, enough to get you a job. As literacy became more prevalent, it wasn't enough to "just read". You had to "read and ____". Similar to business; I would not recommend someone get "just a business degree" so they can apply to any company in the world. I'd recommend they get a "business degree and ____" to target a specific industry or role.
The same is slowly happening with programming. As the spectrum of what "programming" means continues to widen, and as code-literacy becomes more and more common, it's going to be harder to get a job as "just a programmer". So learn to code, And.
- jstx1 4y agoWhile some stuff is slowly becoming more accessible, the deeper end of technology gets deeper and deeper - complex systems with many moving parts operating on many different levels of abstraction.
- f8o 4y agoI'm not sure about these comparisons because even with more and more people learning scripting and/or a few DSLs for their industries Software Engineering is still a career. Deeper knowledge and experience matters.
- dghlsakjg 4y agoYou need to work with some Gen. A or whatever comes after gen z. They have a level of computer literacy that is shockingly bad. They use computers everyday, but only within the walled gardens of google classroom/iOs/Android. I taught an after school HTML/CSS for grade school age kids, and the majority of them didn't know about the concept of a directory structure. Even just saving a text file (instead of having a file autosave to their google drive) was a foreign concept. Kids these days very much are NOT digital natives in the way that millenials and Gen x were.
- type0 4y agoWhat is really troubling is that many kids are impatient with technology (thank tiktok and other apps for that) so coding is the worst they could imagine.