Comment by venomsnake | Hacker News Reader

Comment by venomsnake | Hacker News Reader

So I am to strive to become a "very valuable asset for any company" ... I guess dehumanization is bad only when it is done by noncorporation people.

Also - can we stop with teaching to code already. Assume instead of literacy and writing in schools we thought people how to flip pages on books with green covers. Or we were teaching people how to multiply only by 8.

Without the broader body of IT literacy, coding is not that useful skill. Except for future corporate drones working on waterfall.

We need to give people basic IT literacy - the critical mass of knowledge that allows them to obtain more and diverse knowledge on their own - so when faced with a problem to know how to formulate a question and where to look for solution.

It is not only teaching development, it's teaching UNIX, 3d, Security and much more [0].

In fact, the most important thing it's teaching is to learn by yourself. Most people just don't know how to learn without a teacher and that's the best skill you can learn if you wish to work in the industry.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(school)#Academics

That is surprising. But it seems that the talking heads in the video have not gotten that memo. Come to us to make 3d games, AI and viruses would have been a killer slogan. And instant differentiation from all the others.

Coding is a pathway to IT literacy. Complaining about teaching code is analogous to complaining about teaching how to write.

It is not a pathway - it is a side effect of it. Most self taught geeks have started from "wanting to do something" and "make a computer program to do it" as the solution. It is a nice skill, but I would never code something until I have exhausted the other (lazier) possibilities.

I very rarely write raw HTML today as a web developer, but if I hadn't created my first personal webpages from scratch and known what it's like to publish to the entire world instantaneously, I would not have had the impetus to learn web dev as an engineering practice. Learning literacy is not a linear path from concept to output.

I agree wholeheartedly. I've met too many developers who can't even use a command line.

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