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It wouldn't be a bad idea to teach kids how to create a professional environment on their computer, but at the same time, the tooling around programming environments is much more complicated than a word processor and it's extremely valuable to teach the basics for credit.

There might be issues of access. It may be possible to go through school without ever having to break out of a GUI to do CLI commands, whereas it may be impossible to graduate from high school without ever typing an essay on word/docs/etc etc.

If word processing were as complex to use as a shell, I’d probably suggest a tutorial on word processing early in the major.

I don’t have to regularly look up how to bold text even in Markdown, but I do have to regularly look up various Bash-isms.

But CS students aren't really expected to pick these things up on the way - and they have other things to be doing if it's not required coursework.

It's like an English major who can read and analyze the classics and nothing else - and cannot write at all outside of abstract poetry.