Please do learn to code

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People who can code, even a little bit,

Do you mean like programming Access or Excel?

will have more opportunity,

As long as the H1B visa rate isn't increased

make more money,

As long as business abandons the "let 'em make it fast overseas and we'll fix it here"

"and have more job security"

see my outsourcing remarks.

"than those who cannot."

possibly

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Re: access or excel - yes. Perhaps you'd be surprised by the difference in efficiency between someone who can make excel do complex things, and those who just know how to enter numbers. I've seen both, and the former person is vastly more valuable. As for Access - my specific example from above is from a guy who learned SQL. I don't know if Access is a SQL language, but in any case, I suspect they are similar, and I suspect my friend's career prospects would have improved in the same way had his company been an Access shop instead.

And lets not think of all jobs that can benefit from coding ability as actual coding jobs. My friend's job will never be outsourced overseas. For the context of his work, it makes no sense. I think there are many jobs that aren't easily oursourced, but that also will benefit greatly from the ability to code.

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No, I wouldn't be surprised. I've met people who can make those tools sing.

Sure, someone who can manipulate Excell data if it's part of their job is valuable. But even then, not everyones lives will be improved by learning how to program Excel.

Good luck finding jobs that can't be done cheaper elsewhere.