I would also like to note that it's in our self-interest to encourage people bring programming education into other fields. There are innumerable cases where a

I would also like to note that it's in our self-interest to encourage people bring programming education into other fields. There are innumerable cases where a professional programmer has had to throw away months (or even years) of effort because the person making the original application didn't have the slightest clue about things like application structure, basic algorithms or even basic utilities like version control. It's painful for us to have to deal with that kind of code and it's painful for the client to find out that the application that runs their business is a shoddy piece of junk that can't scale with their business. Making sure that basic programming skills are more prevalent in the world will help us avoid these situations.