>>29I still don't get it. The idea that we should teach every single fucking kid in the world to learn programming sounds fucking retarded. What if hipsters dominated the world instead and children were forced to take many subjects on alternative music?
One of the most commonly used arguments is that teaching kids programming is somehow a good way of finding talented programmers. If you are talented indeed, you probably liked math from the beginning and you are likely to pick up programming by yourself before the everyoneshouldcodeXD parade stomps on you. If you are not talented, you probably want to flip burgers for a living and don't want to have anything to do with that nerd shit.
Another commonly used argument is that "the software development market is in a shortage of programmers". Fucking seriously? Do you have any idea of how saturated is the market in first world countries? It's not like knowing how to program is going to get you an instajob either. You are right, they're confusing epic javashit webapps with programming. But that means they're in a shortage of code monkeys.
To sum it up, this is a retarded fad that should die already.