If she is looking to be mediocre and use writing software as a ramp into being a nearly-technically-competent manager, then no, algorithms and data structures a

If she is looking to be mediocre and use writing software as a ramp into being a nearly-technically-competent manager, then no, algorithms and data structures are not important. If she wants to have any deep understanding of this field? Well, 90% of it is data structures and algorithms. If you are so adverse to taking such classes, maybe IT vs CS is the path.