Most people can't describe what they want to a human let alone a computer. This is the skill of the programmer. Coding comes second.
If we can teach kids to analyse process, teaching them a programming language, whatever the paradigm, is trivial.
I have no idea what coding will look like in 40 years (although a very solid percentage of it will be no different to now) but it will be driven as much by fashion as by any perceived need to democratise it.
Of course, the alternative view is that programming is already democratised - I have seen the future and it is VB in Excel spreadsheets. /slits wrists
If we can teach kids to analyse process, teaching them a programming language, whatever the paradigm, is trivial.
I have no idea what coding will look like in 40 years (although a very solid percentage of it will be no different to now) but it will be driven as much by fashion as by any perceived need to democratise it.
Of course, the alternative view is that programming is already democratised - I have seen the future and it is VB in Excel spreadsheets. /slits wrists