The pessimist in me.. avoids listening to this for a few reasons.. tech companies Use the h1b visa program to import cheaper labor from abroad because they don't want to pay what skilled american want to earn .

so the tech people want the education system to mass produce tech workers ..for society to pay the price .. so tech companies can pay less and less for skilled workers .

same goes with stem programs.. if most stem programs where not designed to fail as many of the people in them as possible .. we would produce many more skilled stem workers.. and not need to import cheaper stem workers from the rest of the world with the H1 b probram

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Coding has nothing to do with putting children in charge of their computer. You don't re-code Windows 10.

For making apps and web-pages

Unless you are a purist, no one writes html anymore, programs like Wordpress and Dreamweaver are just click the box to make something happen.

For Apps, there are many shell applications where you again, tick boxes to tell it what you intend to make.

Writing software from the ground up using a specific computer language is the only thing that qualifies.

I learned Basic programming pretty well back in the 80's and it does teach you logic, problem solving, algebraic use and a bit of maths.But, what would be used now?

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Problem-solving and logic are 2 aspects alone that make coding beneficial for kids. I barely code; being a lightweight HTML guy....but any deeper coding I did in the past goaded me to think things through.

There's only value in a proposal made by someone which suggests that anyone can do something, before they do it themselves, since many things are not difficult when a person can competently do them.

I agree with that,you must teach your children as Early as possible

who's here learning GoLang?

Coding is not difficult but more you practice and takes time makes you a good coder. You need to understand how to make products, not just write code. Getting a web developer, you need to know how to make a website, not just write out HTML tags. The thing is most of the coding institute do not train like that. That's why people get upset. They cannot influence themselves, as a result, they give up. People should understand how to produce a product in order to develop coding skills.

Great video. Thanks Kinney.
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Yeah, Coding is not difficult. Its great video

Coding is Fun,

it helps the brain to think, how to solve problems.

You don't have to be genius to code...

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there are lots of free resources online to learn coding so it is getting easier by the day

Difficult or not.... It simply doesn't matter...

"Coding" is going the way of the "buggy whip" and Elevator Operator....

The vast majority of "coding" being done today is repetitive.... and adds very little real business value.

I've worked as a Software Engineer for over two decades at Fortune 500 companies....

This was my journey...

I started off creating "common code."

I created my first Enterprise code generator.... I cut my team's work by 90%...

I moved to creating Object Oriented libraries....

I created my second Enterprise "Full Stack" code generator.... I cut my team's work by 95%...

I then created Object Oriented libraries using Design Patterns...

I created my third Enterprise "Full Stack" code generator.... It still cut my team's work by 95%...

I created my "plugin based" no code Enterprise system.... I can do in a day what takes "Coders" months to do...

With ALL companies being bottom line focused... This is the wave of the future.... Why hire a Technical team of Software Engineers, QA Analysts, Dev Ops Pros and Project Managers... costing millions each and every year... when they are simply not needed?

In the end, companies that choose to ignore this... and build everything by hand will face an uphill battle.... How can they possibly compete with companies that have higher quality software and spend 90% less on their Technical Staff?

As we step out always into ever impossibler fyootyures, prolly coders are ten a penny -- dependin' on which code they expert at.


I would wish always to link up with decoders -- principally bcs I so cheap.

Thanks, Mark this is Motivational Video for the future programmer.

When I was a kid, we had programming as a mandatory discipline in all schools of Soviet Union (aka USSR). And you know... that was a useful knowledge for many. But not for me unfortunately, because I was learning it on my own far before I became grown up to learn it in the school, so I always knew much more than my teachers )))


First I've learned programmable calculators coding, then Fortran, BASIC, Z80 Assembly Language and Object Pascal. All of that when I was a schoolboy.

Long time no see...How the hell you doing Cue Ball

cool post THUMPS UP

Thanks a lot , Mark this is Motivational Video for the future programmer.

It's a subjective topic people good with maths usually tend to like coding always not *applicable for all*

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Yeah, coding is very easy and make fun happy for Every coder .....Is just Awsome.

Didn't Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg basically steal the code they needed?

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i just love coding

Nothing is hard or tough if you fall in love with it. This is the law of nature. If you work whole-heartedly then you can learn anything. If a human being can develop those alien codes, then its not hard for another human being to learn those codes!

Well, nothing is -- If you really enjoy learning it.
But if you don't, then that's like waiting for hours at the bank for your turn ...

It was more challenging for me to find schools with courses designed to teach blind persons particular programming languages.
Than learning it on my own.

And it was much harder looking for schools that teach data science, ML, DL, AI, wearable and IoT device building.
Than learning by doing it on my own.

But I can do these now with my eyes closed.
Simply because I don't have a choice (I'm completely blind).
But more so, because I really enjoy doing these things.

I personally don't agree with the mantra that everyone needs to know how to code. If it's something that interests you and you have the capacity for it; sure, learn to code. But claiming that it's "so easy" devalues computer programming. It's literally a science - it's called computer science.

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I'd bet that a lot of people who think coding is difficult, haven't even started due to that very presumption.

Credit to those who do start things to find out.

No one ever pays anyone even a penny to write code. Programmers get paid to solve problems. Code is a tool we use to solve problems.


If you want to learn coding just because coding is cool or because it's easy or difficult or whatever, you will give up in a couple of months.

Seen this video a couple of times. Coding is not my cup of tea. It's something you need to love to do. If you are just forced and mindlessly doing coding it's not going to be much fruitfull.

Thanks! for the video.

that seems to be exactly what i missed in school

Thanks for the video. Learning to code is something I've always wanted to do but never got around to it. Does anyone have any links to online learning sites they would recommend?

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I think this is a great idea. The future is all the same for digital technology.

Well, I am more than sure that Zuckeberg or Ellison or Gates or somebody else never even write a string of code in their lives. They more like a face of the company then somebody who did all the grunt work here for everyone else. I suppose it that way.

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It is you vs. the computer. You are trying to enslave it, to get it to do exactly what you want it to do.

It resists in every way possible; it is worse than a teenager at finding tiny little minuscule things you didn't get precisely right and using them to defeat you.

Sometimes they hide what they did and it is your struggle to find it and correct it.

Coding is very hard at times. And becoming proficient at coding is incredibly hard. But this is true with so many skills.

Becoming a great guitarist is hard. Becoming a great painter is hard. Learning to sculpt, design buildings, perform surgery almost any skilled profession has a point where you're in the thick of it and any sane person would quit.

If all you have is the promise of

"if I do this I can get paid a lot of money..."

it's not going to be enough to get you through that moment.

Steve Jobs calls it Passion.

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