I see it more as offering the opportunity to people to have an interest in it. I learned to code in my own time, by digging around and finding tutorials and snippets.<p>Part of my secondary school (high school) education was mandatory science classes where we covered biology, chemistry and physics. The majority of that stuff I haven&#x27;t used since. With computers being more and more a part of our daily lives, why shouldn&#x27;t coding be part of what we teach our kids? If they don&#x27;t take an interest in it then that&#x27;s fine, but there&#x27;ll be a good chunk that will then use it later on in life.<p>Not to mention that it&#x27;s actually great for teaching problem solving. Showing that breaking down a problem and solving it in a number of steps really helps grasp how to solve a problem.