California teaches inmates code; some states ban them from teaching themselves
Some of the ideas referenced in this article seem kind of weird to me, like that coding is “the next big blue collar job.”Is this a profession or a trade?Is “Software Engineering” a euphemism that exaggerates our jobs?Did I waste my time getting a CS degree and spending half my life learning to do this?I’m all in favor of anyone who wants to learn programming having a go at it, but I hope it doesn’t make me an elitist if I wonder whether it’s fair to consider software dev or engineering a trade skill that most anyone should be able to learn in several months without a general STEM education...