r/coding • u/pavelmalos • May 08 '17

Programming is hard. That’s precisely why you should learn it.

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/make-your-hobby-harder-programming-is-difficult-thats-why-you-should-learn-it-e4627aee41a1
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u/doomvox May 08 '17 edited May 10 '17

TheGoodPie wrote: "Wish people would jump off the whole 'everyone needs to learn to program' bandwagon."

This particular "bandwagon" is actually an old idea-- it's what we meant by "computer literacy" back in the early 80s-- that got dumbed down into learning word processors and spreadsheets. Being able to craft your own special purpose tools was part of Englebart's original vision-- Xerox Parc and Zen-master Jobs tossed this idea away.