The point is that software literacy is becoming more relevant to everyday life. The point of a mathematics class is not to create professional mathematicians, i

The point is that software literacy is becoming more relevant to everyday life. The point of a mathematics class is not to create professional mathematicians, it's to provide the concepts of mathematics to students. I'm not a mathematician, but I use at least trigonometry(mostly through polar coordinates) every couple days to solve something a lot of other people would just let get out of hand. I see software literacy as a tool which will become increasingly relevant as the world starts wanting more diverse software. You will start seeing florists, dentists, architects, and foremen writing programs to solve issues which are not complex enough to warrant a professional software engineer, or which require so much domain knowledge that they couldn't be written by most software engineers. That's really what this is about, in my opinion; at least personally I wouldn't be so misguided to think that the point of software literacy is to churn out a country full of specialist software professionals.