The only valid reason is that you'd like to know how to program a computer.
Nobody ever expected me to be able to learn to do surgery, plant stuff, design buildings or whatever. Programming is not basic literacy. Let's stop pretending it is.
Nobody ever expected me to be able to learn to do surgery, plant stuff, design buildings or whatever. Programming is not basic literacy. Let's stop pretending it is.
I think it's similar with computers and programs. The essence of a computer is information, so the main skill a common person needs is knowing how to work with information e.g. in the present day, navigate the web safely, how to research appropriately + identify reliable sources, organize and analyze data, manage privacy, etc They shouldn't have to be programmers themselves, and indeed, that's the whole point of software, so that a common person can focus on their main task of working with information, and not have to be concerned about technical details under the hood.
note: things like excel macros where a software has a programming-like feature is a different matter, since it's a feature exposed explicitly by the software for users to exploit if need be. In any case, it's a software choice and hence specific only to that software.
ie. if you want to get a well paying job doing what you love, then learning to program might be an important part of that even if programming is not what you love.