I think it's possible that learning programming could be the gateway to learning those other things, otherwise they're of little use. Many people don't even nee

I think it's possible that learning programming could be the gateway to learning those other things, otherwise they're of little use. Many people don't even need to know the filesystem. They store their stuff in Google Docs or somewhere like that. If they use mostly canned software (such as EPIC or SAP) for their jobs, then their data are stored in some magical special unknown place. I learned programming (in BASIC, in 1981) before I heard about the filesystem or shell. Making more complex programs do interesting work was my reason for learning more about the innards of computer systems.