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IMO, one of the main benefits of everybody learning a bit computer language is so that they can understand better how computers think, which is quite different
by kailuowang 13y ago
IMO, one of the main benefits of everybody learning a bit computer language is so that they can understand better how computers think, which is quite different from people.
In an age when people are starting to interact with computer more than with other people, it's certainly valuable.
I don't worry too much about novices building shitty things, because debugging crappy code takes way too much energy then learning the language, from my knowledge, nobody enjoys that unless they get paid. And IMO corporations hiring crappy programmers is a problem that has nothing with everybody learning to code.
- michaelwww 13y agoI think you make an important point here. People should understand basic math and basic programming, if only to protect themselves from charlatans. If more people understood basic financial math we wouldn't have as severe a credit crisis as we had recently. People would have understood the risk in all those crazy loan offers (no income - no money down - no problem!) Congruently, when companies of the future say "trust our computers, they're artificially intelligent" people are going to have a little knowledge to base that trust on.