Learning How to Code Is A Waste Of Time

Sure, it's super awesome that there are a ton more resources out there for people to learn to code, but without the fundamentals I'm not sure what's going to happen.

Codecademy has decided for 300k people they should learn JavaScript because they can build a game with it. People are heading into a black box without rhyme or reason as to what they are getting themselves into.

I don't see how this is any better than picking up a Dummies book. Let's add some more context to these "how to code" sites so that people don't get discouraged 1/4 of the way into learning.