I share the opinions of the other comments: We have our subjective world view and it is easy to get lost in it and think of it as objective and thus overestimat

I share the opinions of the other comments: We have our subjective world view and it is easy to get lost in it and think of it as objective and thus overestimate the importance and benefits of knowing how to code. That said, I still think, that for some types of children learning to code is a nice way to learn logic and mathematics, because it can be applied and is not some school stuff in their mind you have to learn for the sake of learning it. For college education, my view is a bit different: These students are going to work in an environment where more and more parts are automated by software. I often had clients, who had not even a basic understanding of how an application is structured. Just recently a client of mine let his "computer guy" talk to me, who designed a web form in dreamweaver and therefore thought most of the job was done. I think many people have this UI centric view and it seems highly beneficial for them to understand some basics of validating, processing, saving and securing data if they have to deal with software in the future.