Computer Programing

I have no interest in learning how to write code for computers. I think one of the great thing about the internet and computers in general is that it has only become easier to use them and they require me as the user to have less and less knowledge about the actual code necessary for me to be able to use them.

In the readwriteweb article "Computer Programming for All: A New Form of Literacy" the author writes about how important it will become for future generations to learn how to write code. He compares this to the class separation when only the most wealthy people learned how to read and write. I think this is a little extreme. I have to hire someone to fix my car too. Would it be faster and easier if I was highly skilled in fixing cars and could do it myself? Yes, not to mention cheaper, but that is not something I am interested in or choose to learn.

Kids will learn all kinds of stuff when they go to school and maybe they will learn to write code, but I don't think this is something that every kids will learn how to do alongside reading. I think the inherent growth of the internet and computers shows is how unnecessary it is. I can write this blog with no knowledge of code. That is partially why blogs are so popular. If I needed to know code in order to write it I wouldn't have gone into this type of masters program. Obviously this is just my opinion but I will be very interested to see how this idea progresses as computers do. It is easy to see we are only becoming a more technological world.