| > All the evidence shows that programming requires a high level of aptitude that only a small percentage of the population possess. No such evidence, at least not in any respectful sources. > will do nothing to help the skills shortage Who said that this is the immediate goal of teaching as many people as possible to code? > Given the skills shortage one would expect graduates from computer science courses to have very high employment rates. This logic is broken on so many levels that it's even embarrassing to comment. Let's start with a trivial nitpicking that Computer Science education got nothing to do with the Software Engineering. > there are two populations: one that finds programming a relatively painless and indeed enjoyable thing to learn and another that can’t learn no matter how good the teaching It is really embarrassing that the guy who wrote it calls himself a programmer - i.e., someone who is supposed to be logical and rigorous. There are far more categories that these two. And the most important category, targeted by all the programmes he's mocking, is the people who do no even know if they'll find programming enjoyable, because they never tried. |