Very true, but the point of the column was to question the need to teach 8-year-olds coding when their time would be better spent on other things given their age. Music could well be one of them, especially given the relationship to math and logic skills which are prerequisites for programming. A lot of the comments seem to think that Ms. Wente was critical of the entire field of coding education which is not the case. Reading comprehension is another skill critical to learning any subject and should be mastered at an early age in order to facilitate more advanced subjects, like coding for example.