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Personally, I learned a huge amount about how and why computers work the way they do THROUGH the process of learning to program. Dealing with low-level languages teaches you immeasurable amounts about how even electronics work. From there, understanding things like VPN was a (relative) piece of cake.
With that said, I agree with you about teaching people more about technologies they use everyday. Sadly, so many people have zero interest in doing so.
A lot of things dev say are true, but this one I don't believe as much:
Many devs say that it's important for everybody to learn a bit of a basic programming language, to learn about computers and how programs are made. I disagree, I think that instead people should learn *how* things work. Ex, in my school people always use a VPN to get around the proxy. I don't care if they know basic statements, I think it's more important to learn how a VPN works. Most of them don't even know what VPN stands for. Am I the only one?
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