I've spent most of my life working in production (graphics, ads, publishing, music) environments which had no software developer on staff, nor should they. Eve

I've spent most of my life working in production (graphics, ads, publishing, music) environments which had no software developer on staff, nor should they. Every single one of those teams would have benefited from having someone who can do at least basic scripting for automating repetitive tasks. The thing is, if you want to build a custom file rename-er in python, you cannot google the answer. You don't need the skills and abilities of a professional developer, but you need far more than an afternoon. So yeah, that's just one example of why many, many, more people should learn to code. The computers are tools and there's no reason why 99.99% of the users should be only pointing and clicking while a chosen few are the sorcerers behind the scenes.