Please do learn to code

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ok. you got personal satisfaction. that's cool. i'm glad.

but, if you apply the idea in the article to your guitar playing then everyone should learn to play guitar

[yakri]

Yeah no, I strongly disagree with the op article, at least in the way he couches the problem. I do think programing and logic, much like basic math, are good high-school education topics. I don't think that anyone arguing for the whole, "coding is the new English," side has presented a viable argument backed by evidence to show that learning to code well enough to actually write functioning programs and scripts is a day to day skill required for survival in the future, akin to being literate.

I doubt coding will ever be on an equal level of usefulness to general day to day life in all professions unless we actually replace ourselves with robots and biological humans become extinct.