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@vfrmedia @ekaitz_zarraga @red @jjg
I disagree with all of my heart.
Do you really want your policeman to program? Your teacher and baker to do so? I want them to be specialists in their own topics and if they code - that's awesome, but they should not be forced to.
Making coding easier to start is nice, but we cannot demand that people do that.
Seriously, I cannot emphasize this more. We need politicians. Policemen. Storytellers. Plumbers.
They don't need to be coders at the same time
@alxd @vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de @ekaitz_zarraga @red@jorts.horse
There’s that word “code”. That word makes programming sound mysterious or magical. When you program a coffeemaker we don’t call it coding.
I want people to use tools that are optimized for the tasks they need to do, and that work better the more they use them.
If you need a general-purpose computer, then you need to be able to program it.
*if*