> I saw another article for an elementary school programming course, and I can’t believe how far off-base we have gotten. We don’t need more software developers

> I saw another article for an elementary school programming course, and I can’t believe how far off-base we have gotten. We don’t need more software developers but if you believe that notion, I don’t think more courses is the way to go. I don't think idea is to make everyone a software engineer, it's to teach the basics of computer programming to everyone so they can use it in their everyday life in the same way basic math, language and other skills are taught. Being able to hack together a basic script to automate a tedious task, or make your computer (something almost everyone has at this point) do something it can't already do would be beneficial to a lot of people, even when most of those people are not going to become software engineers in the long run.