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> teach 'everyone' to code.

I wonder if coding classes will be the new "shop class" . https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/shop_class

In 8th grade, I took a compulsory wood working class. I guess it was a skill that adults thought children should learn.

By that point, I had already been coding for 6 years. My school had a computer lab, but no coding was taught .... just typing. Also we played networked Oregon Trail Deluxe once or twice.

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I wish more of the engineers I work with had taken a wood shop class, so that they would learn about things like kerf, working with things that are out of square, tolerances, and how certain milling or lathing operations are impossible. Most of the young engineers I work with only know about drawing things and running simulations on them, rather than how things are actually built.

I took a wood shop class in high school and did not learn any of those things, I learned how to make spoons, boxes, and cabinets.

Fair point. But even learning how to measure things, mark them, cut them out, and how to assemble things would help my young engineer coworkers.

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