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Basic skills in medicine and accounting are useful to have and sort of prevalent. I'm sure you put on a band-aid before. Basic skills in automating certain comp

by morsch 11y ago

Basic skills in medicine and accounting are useful to have and sort of prevalent. I'm sure you put on a band-aid before. Basic skills in automating certain computer tasks seem to be valuable to many people -- almost all office workers, I'd wager. I don't see how that devalues the profession. There's a huge difference between what people can achieve using stuff like this and what I do every day. Maybe basic skills in stuff like this will even translate to a better appreciation of what professional developers do. A guy can dream...

vacri 11y ago
When it comes to programming, 'putting on a band-aid' is analagous to 'entering user/pass credentials'. Yes, everyone can put on a band-aid, just like everyone can log on to something. Neither take skill or understanding, and both are 'just things you do'. On a tangent, a great many people have positively woeful understanding of biology. I think biology should be a mandatory subject in high school. After all, the one thing that absolutely every human has and uses throughout their entire life is their body; that can't be said of pretty much any other high school subject.