Taking a step back, I personally question why being able to code should be considered important?
I'm a professional dev myself, but I don't see why everyone should have to, or feel like they have to, learn how to code, or even make stuff using "no-code".
In general, kids and adults alike, but especially kids, should spend more time being active and outside, not sitting down in front of computer screens.
Not everyone is cut out for or interested in coding, just like not everyone is cut out for or interested in medicine, law, a trade or literally every other imaginable field. And that's not a value judgement or a judgement of people's intelligence or lack thereof (unlike a lot of techies, I don't believe we're smarter than everyone else), it's just fact.
> Taking a step back, I personally question why being able to code should be considered important?
Ability to code gives you a particular mindset that makes it much easier for you to work with computer technologies. It's helpful, but on the other hand you could argue that all other technologies we use in daily life have been sufficiently abstracted away that you can get away with not knowing how they work.
The real reason why coding is a big topic in society is that, for the past two or three decades, programming has been an easy way to move up one or two socioeconomical classes. Most well-paying fields are nowhere as easy in terms of workload or required education. Of course, if everyone became a programmer, the payoff wouldn't be as high anymore, but there's lots of money to be made right now by pointing to college dropouts made tech billionaires, or fat FAANG paychecks, and selling people coding bootcamps.
(Or, in less cynical terms: the demand for software developers still outpaces supply; this manifests as a background social pressure to create more software developers.)
I'm a professional dev myself, but I don't see why everyone should have to, or feel like they have to, learn how to code, or even make stuff using "no-code".
In general, kids and adults alike, but especially kids, should spend more time being active and outside, not sitting down in front of computer screens.
Not everyone is cut out for or interested in coding, just like not everyone is cut out for or interested in medicine, law, a trade or literally every other imaginable field. And that's not a value judgement or a judgement of people's intelligence or lack thereof (unlike a lot of techies, I don't believe we're smarter than everyone else), it's just fact.