Sure - let me answer that with my post for the "Everyone does not need to learn to code" thread. When I say getting more non-programmers programming, I mean it from more of a practical standpoint.

My previous post:

"From a practical standpoint, I really wish everyone was taught enough programming to know how to automate basic manipulation of text data. I see way too many people editing long lists of data by hand, when there are much better ways to go about it (even Excel works great for this kind of stuff).

Just knowing this setup below can let you do some really power automation of manual tasks and can save you a lot of time.

Example template in Python:

  import csv
  with open('mydata.csv', 'r') as csvfile:
       reader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter=',', quotechar='"')
       for row in reader:
           # Data manipulation here

"

Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6237430

I'd also recommend looking at Jach's post (the child post of my post in the link) - I thought he made some really good points/critiques about 'tool-based' vs 'concept-based' teaching.