I agree with the point you made about learning programming out of necessity and kids these days not really needing to know it. I do find it a little upsetting though. When I was in high school (a good 10 years ago), our programming classes consisted of Wacom BASIC and Turing. I begged and begged my teacher to teach us C. As I was finishing my high school career they finally brought in a small C++ class (which apparently only lasted a year or two before they canned it).
If kids today have it so easy that they don't need to learn programming, because everything they could ever want is already done for them, then we're going to eventually see ourselves in serious trouble because no matter what is out there right now to make our lives easier, there is someone behind it who programmed it. Where oh where did all the programmers go you say? Well they were spoonfeed simplicity their whole lives. Why on Earth would they even consider programming at the time. Troublesome indeed. Is this a bad thing? Most definately! Should we care? If we don't we could possibly see technology in future generations regressing. Impossible you say? Who knows...
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I agree with the point you made about learning programming out of necessity and kids these days not really needing to know it. I do find it a little upsetting though. When I was in high school (a good 10 years ago), our programming classes consisted of Wacom BASIC and Turing. I begged and begged my teacher to teach us C. As I was finishing my high school career they finally brought in a small C++ class (which apparently only lasted a year or two before they canned it). If kids today have it so easy that they don't need to learn programming, because everything they could ever want is already done for them, then we're going to eventually see ourselves in serious trouble because no matter what is out there right now to make our lives easier, there is someone behind it who programmed it. Where oh where did all the programmers go you say? Well they were spoonfeed simplicity their whole lives. Why on Earth would they even consider programming at the time. Troublesome indeed. Is this a bad thing? Most definately! Should we care? If we don't we could possibly see technology in future generations regressing. Impossible you say? Who knows...