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"The existence of individuals who wouldn't gain much from learning to code does not imply that no one will gain much from learning to code." In the blog post,
by MortenK 14y ago
"The existence of individuals who wouldn't gain much from learning to code does not imply that no one will gain much from learning to code."
In the blog post, Atwood actually writes the following:
"Look, I love programming. I also believe programming is important … in the right context, for some people."
His actual argument is that the "everyone should learn programming" camp is wrong, it is not an opinion that no one can gain much from learning programming.
- bgilroy26 14y ago> His actual argument is that the "everyone should learn programming" camp is wrong, it is not an opinion that no one can gain much from learning programming. I agree with you that this was the point of the post. I respect Mr. Atwood tremendously, but I think that you and he overshoot the goals of Codecademy and its ilk by a long shot. As others have stated, the goal is to have a bit more about how the computer works and a bit more about what computer programmers do at work. Anything beyond that is gravy.