Hadi PartoviVerified account

I'm having some really mixed feelings about coding today. I am supposed to mentor some kids to do the hour of code from @codeorg https://code.org/  , so we watched the video that is there about why coding matters.

Video there talks about how awesome it is to code, how we're changing the world, and how jobs are great. It's a false narrative. People who write code are not today's rockstars. We are not valued. Despite what @iamwill or @BillGates say on the video.

Sorry you feel that way. FYI the @codeorg message isn’t that everybody should learn to code, to become coders. It’s that computer science is changing everything, so schools should teach it -- to future lawyers, nurses, scientists, managers, and yes, coders.