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Re:As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding for Career Change by a3voices on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @05:23PM (#9964587)
Mandatory in what sense? Most people get by without having to code anything more complex than an Excel formula.
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Re:As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding for Career Change by chadgeidel on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @05:46PM (#9964734)
In my opinion "programming" should be generalized to "instructing the computer to do a series of tasks", or "applying the output of one system into the next system". I don't think that's overgeneralizing.
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Re:As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding for Career Change by JustSomeNobody on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @08:55AM (#9968269)
Let's not redefine words. What you're suggesting "programming" be generalized to already has a definition, "Computer Literacy".
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Re:As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding for Career Change by joedavison on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @06:49PM (#9965083)
"Most people" cannot code an Excel formula.
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