> what is this obsession with teaching your kids how to program? I would not want my future kids do the same always worrying occupation that I do ... But chanc

> what is this obsession with teaching your kids how to program? I would not want my future kids do the same always worrying occupation that I do ... But chances are they won't. Review the history of literacy and print media. Early on, reading and writing was a specialty practiced by cloistered monks, and delivered in finished form to an ignorant public. Later on, because of technical breakthroughs, social policy changes rightly decreed that everyone should become literate. We take for granted that everyone should know how to read and write words, but we're in transition with respect to the same issue in computer literacy -- the ability to, so to speak, read and write code. Being able to program a computer in the future won't remotely resemble how it looks today, any more than modern print literacy resembles quill pens and parchment scrolls.