so are doing surgery and lawyering also essential skills then? what about underwater welding? we should teach kids that skill too from early on, it’s super important everyone can do that too, since you expect everyone to know how to write software.
What a weird response. Almost all STEM degrees require candidates to write code these days, so coding is far more accessible than underwater welding.
STEM degrees require people to write code because it helps sell people on the degrees. parents are hoping their kid will be the next zuckerberg. that does not mean that this is right, and that this is what society needs. another reason why this idea that everyone needs to code is promoted, is that companies need cheap labor. so the more code monkeys are churned out the cheaper it is to build software. so just forget about this idealistic idea. it’s not what you think it is.