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Not everyone can be a successful novelist, but we all can read and write.

It is OK to have basic literacy, and the educational system is quickly adopting coding as part of basic literacy. That, in turn is making more and more people good enough to do basic coding, even if they will never do it as a professional career.

Just like people play basketball in their drive. Just like they drive their cars around town.

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I absolutely support everyone learning it. But for most it will be as annoying and ungratifying as calculus is to them in school. Tedious, and they'll never get good enough to get a job where they use it.

I'd bring it closer to shop class.

They might make a decent birdhouse/python app, but after that most will just put the knowledge on the shelf.

> and the educational system is quickly adopting coding as part of basic literacy

If only. They're mostly fooling around with random low-code or no-code tools that get misrepresented as "learning to code", when literally just teaching BASIC, LOGO or PASCAL in K-12 the way they used to do it back in the 1980s would bring us all a lot closer to that worthwhile goal.

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