What do y'all think about this? I'm torn. I don't think everyone should need to learn how to code, but as you move towards further and further in the future code might come to be a core function of our ability to communicate with each other. So when i see kids being taught how to code, what can i say? It's fun and stuff. But i'm very cynical about the general feeling i get that children are being given access to this secret, unfolding secret land of possibility when code is, uh, well, i mean it's just another way to do work right? And though i understand that code empowers people to have access to means and knowledge that they can use to express themselves, to ends that go beyond commercial and engineering interests, i'm too cynical to think that that's what's expected of these children when they grow up.
What i mean is this. From what i can observe and perceive, there's a lot of emphasis being put on how the individual marketability and usefulness of any person is increased considerably if they know how to code. And code is sold to them as something that's accessible, quick to learn and turn into a deliverable. Which i'm not saying it's not, because i don't think coding is particularly difficult until you're somewhat over the event horizon. But i do know it's not for everyone, whereas rather conveniently, being told that you only need to learn a handful of things to make your own website/web service/the new facebook is something most people are very receptive to. Frankly, that's abusive. It's abusing a generation that's got it fucking hard, worn and tired of making themselves into desirable assets. It's hard not to see code infiltrating curricula of younger children's classes as an extension of that notion.
Get these kids into sexual education instead or something.
What i mean is this. From what i can observe and perceive, there's a lot of emphasis being put on how the individual marketability and usefulness of any person is increased considerably if they know how to code. And code is sold to them as something that's accessible, quick to learn and turn into a deliverable. Which i'm not saying it's not, because i don't think coding is particularly difficult until you're somewhat over the event horizon. But i do know it's not for everyone, whereas rather conveniently, being told that you only need to learn a handful of things to make your own website/web service/the new facebook is something most people are very receptive to. Frankly, that's abusive. It's abusing a generation that's got it fucking hard, worn and tired of making themselves into desirable assets. It's hard not to see code infiltrating curricula of younger children's classes as an extension of that notion.
Get these kids into sexual education instead or something.
