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non trivial front end stuff does involve systems modeling in the sense mentioned in the article. Just saying ;)

Of course it does, as non-trivial anything development. It's just not what people are being taught, and more importantly - they're being taught things for a wrong reason. "Teach kids to code" was supposed to be about making them smarter, allowing them to think in ways they previously couldn't. Not about preparing them for a lucrative career.

You know, basic alphabetization also does not teach kids to think in any way. And does not even prepare them for a lucrative career either.

If your criticism is that those programs do no go far enough, I can agree with that. But they have to start somewhere, and that somewhere must be easy and basic.

Fair enough. My criticism is that they focus on the wrong thing. They turn into vocational training. It's a different goal, even if the beginnings look the same. We don't need everyone to be a developer - but we could use everyone understanding concepts related to computation.

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