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Basic programming is fundamentally formal logic in executable form. Learning it provides people with a basic understanding of how the machines around them work, what might go wrong when they break, and teaches them what is fast becoming the new global language (binary, sort of, this analogy is kind of being stretched). The point is not for everyone to enter the computer industry, the point is for everyone to have at least some level of awareness the same way we teach the scientific method in schools.