I was talking to a friend and he thinks coding will be so common that it will eventually become like an entry-level, minimum wage skill - at some point in the future. I can kind of see his point with coding now being taught more in primary education and to younger kids. Do you think coding will become part of regular school curriculum, along with math, grammar, etc.? I’m curious what everyone thinks here.
Maybe eventually, at least for mundane programming tasks. Most low code platforms are still fairly disappointing but 95% of use cases are simple enough that a machine should be able to spit out the code. Will this be in the next 10 years? I doubt it. But probably within the next 30 or so.
It already is. So many programming jobs with shitty pay. Doesn't mean they'll treat the engineers behind Google Search the same way. Some things can't be taught in elementary school.
I have been hearing this nonsense for the past 15 years. In this timeframe coding jobs have become hotter and hotter. Your friend is clearly wrong. Obviously there is a difference in the kind of work done in Faang which will continue to be in heavy demand. Your friend might be correct for mundane jobs, however such jobs are at the risk of outright elimination due to automation.
Not in our lifetime. There are more than 10 times the amount of jobs than there are graduates. Its simple supply and demand. If it becomes a thing that any uneducated person off the street can do, then sure. CS requires pretty deep education though. It's not like fast food or construction which requires 0 school.
But not a whole lot of kids will have interest in it after being taught how to code. So in the long run there won’t be too many coders.
Being able to read and write English will make everybody Shakespeare. Oh wait. Being able to code is not what makes great developers great.
1000 monkeys banging on type writers...
What skills will be the top paid instead of coding?
It's a profession, there are uber drivers and nascar drivers
Yes