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Re:iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Lit... by psychomugs on Thursday July 30, 2020 @03:07AM (#23995456)
It'll eventually be tantamount to asking why people should learn how to read.
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Re:iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Lit... by dgellow on Thursday July 30, 2020 @04:52AM (#23996000)
I think that’s a flawed analogy.

Reading and writing are necessary to participate in society (such as read and sign contracts), that’s not the case for writing software.

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