A necessary skills for the future

As the prompt says coding is important in this world that we live now because most people now get into coding more than before since it put food in their table.

But then the question says “should it be compulsory for every student while learning basic knowledge?” Well, I wouldn’t say yes and I wouldn’t say no because we can’t force anything on anyone since everyone is going different directions after graduating from school, but no knowledge is waste anyway so it wouldn’t be a bad idea if coding is been added to a compulsory subject in secondary school and when students gets to the higher institution they can choose which subject they like.

Reason why I said it should be compulsory in secondary school is that everyone learn basic of whatever they know in secondary schools so it will help a lot of people later in the future in one way or the another if they can have knowledge of coding.

When I got into university then, I thought I was good to go with the basic knowledge of computer packages that I had when I was in college but when the real lectures started I realized that there are lots of things I don’t even know when it comes to computer, programming and the so called computer packages that I learned.

Though the knowledge that I had before wasn’t a waste because it helps me catch up quickly when the lecturers say something new in the class, there was a big problem at some point because there were two lecturers handling important parts of computer programming in my department, and they didn’t know what they were teaching as well.

The lecturer taking us programming knows nothing about how to run a code on a computer system; none of his programs run, and someone like me who doesn’t have basic knowledge of coding was just there looking at everything like magic since I had no idea of what they were doing.

There was a guy in my department who had learned how to run a program, so he stepped in to help our so-called lecturer, and he did it perfectly, which I still don’t understand to this day—how he did it or what he did. All I saw were signs, numbers, and also some letters, which I don’t understand.

Later the lecturer gave us an assignment to run a program on something. Meanwhile, it was only two guys in my department who understood what the real programming was, so we were left with no choice but to pay them for the assignment, and they did a photocopy for everyone since it’s the same assignment.

The lecturer in question didn’t check the assignment later since he doesn’t understand it either, but we got our marks anyway. Having knowledge of coding is a very good thing, even though it is not important, but we all don’t know what will put food on our table later in the future, so why not have the basic knowledge before deciding on what we want to do later in the future?



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I believe the world is growing, and it's gonna keep growing. I think everyone should grow with the world as it keeps evolving.

Children are gonna be the ones to face the larger world because they are still growing and learning coding and programming at that early stage of their lives is gonna be really amazing.

Then those that love it should pursue a career in it while those that don't find it interesting would look for something else.

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Yeah, but having basic knowledge of it is never a bad thing because life might happen and the coding knowledge might be the only way to survive

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The fact that coding is so important in today's job market is quite important. But at the same time I guess we were getting past that point where raw coding skills aren't landing people many jobs because AI has gone so ahead. But that just strengthens the argument of people starting to code at an earlier age. Because if they did, they would have had a lot more knowledge by the time they are heading towards jobs and AI wouldn't just be able to replace them because human knowledge which has been refined over many years cannot be replaced by a refined large language model.

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That’s just the truth nothing can replace human even though AI is taking over so many things still AI needs human to operate as well.

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Yes, AI will always need humans at some part of it, for a long time still

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