Everyone should learn to code" is a movement to flood the market with Software Engineers so that salaries can be reduced.

Conspiracy theory that I just read on reddit and sounds about right.
Would you feel the same?

Probably they are asking for more devs because there are more dev jobs?

Im not sure how such a conspiracy like the one you brought up would come about.

i would be glad if more people had a concept of logic, structure and modularity.

not everyone has to be a programmer, but i think it is just as important as math and reading/writing. not everyone is going to be a writer but everyone learns it. it should be taught in school.

"Learn to code" as it's being thrown about this instant has its roots in Hillary Clinton telling audiences during her presidential run that she would kill off the coal industry. When confronted with the notion that the coal industry folks would lose their jobs, she or somebody with her suggested that the coal miners just need to retrain themselves and get new jobs (as programmers, for example). "Learn to code" became a not so subtle jab at coal miners suggesting that they were dinosaurs that needed to reinvent themselves. Fast forward to the last couple of months that have seen a couple of well known media outlets (Buzzfeed and HuffPo) make dramatic cuts. The newly unemployeed "jounalists" took to social media to complain about the perceived injustice of being laid off. Folks who remembered how places like BF and HP poked fun at the coal miners fears (and who had no love for BF and HP anyway) started repsonding to the laid off folks with "learn to code". Turnabout is fair play.

@erroronline1 the guy who reads all the classic litterature probably feels the same. Every one should read at least these classics.

Then the biologist says that every one should at least be familiar with...

Then the physicist....

Then the ....

Then we have a whole bunch of assholes who know a bit of everything but cant do shit ;)

Plus Jimi hendrix might not have been as fucking awesome if he was more logical.

@Santaclauze i'd agree with all of them. after all this is taught here in school. but our computer class was about data sheets and how to format a letter with a deprecated software.
first class has to be 'how not to be an asshole and accept others might be better at something' though

Maybe I just don't know enough about the politics, but I think the high-tech sector is built in a way that with more workers it will just grow

I’ve always seen coding as a skill that’s really useful even if you don’t want a career in it. People keep thinking I do CS simply because I code things for myself and others, but I’d never do it professionally.

@Santaclauze I guess I'm an asshole then ;)

Everybody should learn to work

It is this generation's favorite job.
It gives you freedom, it pays well, it is "easy", you can work remote on a first world country from a third world (like I do)

Now days devs don't even need to know basic CS topics, you can just pickup JS, Python or Ruby and start writing, hence formal education is also on decline for this career.

That is a point for the conspiracy theory, uneducated developers must earn less when the hype settles, like a technician in coding and not as an engineer that codes.

More devs wouldn't just mean lower salaries, but less work too