I think it is extremely unfortunate that teaching children how to program is usually marketed as a way of teaching job skills. Programming can be an empowering

I think it is extremely unfortunate that teaching children how to program is usually marketed as a way of teaching job skills. Programming can be an empowering medium of creative self-expression and intellectual exploration, and this should be where we place the emphasis when we introduce children to computers. Programming is wonderful because computers can do anything we can explain, and in writing programs we can learn more deeply about anything from visual composition and color theory to poetic structure. We don't need a society where everyone is a software engineer, but I would like to live in a society where typing on a keyboard is no more unusual in an art class than using a brush or a pencil.