I don't think of it as an industry. It's more like knowing how to read and write or how to cook or do first aid that we should endeavor to at least give kids a

I don't think of it as an industry. It's more like knowing how to read and write or how to cook or do first aid that we should endeavor to at least give kids a taste for what it's like. Computers are so ubiquitous now that it's the equivalent of Home Ec half a century ago. There's a lot of office jobs that we don't think of as traditional programming jobs, but would still benefit from having a basic skill in automating or scripting repetitive tasks. One side effect from this is that the people who love it and have a knack for it could figure it out much earlier, and we'd probably end up with more, better full-time programmers.