LogFAQs > #892175920

Do kids really learn code? I mean, the average general majority kids, not whatever kids wind up getting interested on their own and choosing to specialize in it (like people have been doing for 50 or so years).

Because it seems to me like we're in the phase of computer ownership now where most people neither know nor care how their computer works, and would have absolutely zero interest in coding (and even less need to know coding for anything significant at the base level, which is all 99.44% of users really do anyway). I feel like the window (no pun intended) to teach coding as some kind of universal skill has long since closed.

Sort of like how, in the 1950s, it was sort of seen as a badge of manliness to be able to work on your own car, and now most people in the US couldn't change their own oil if their life depended on it. Most people can do most of the things they want to do most of the time without knowing a single line of code (and there are always other people to harass when it becomes important), so the interest isn't there.

Back in college I coded my own web page (or more accurately, pages - I made dozens of them) from source code in Notepad (even when web editors were a thing, because code always seemed more flexible to me), but I don't think a single kid under 18 could make a web page today without easy GUI editing or do-it-yourself helper programs to do all the under the hood work for them.


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