Unfortunately it's too late for me - I decided years ago (in favour of learning). However you're right, both articles (and associated discussions) had excellent points and were well worth reading.
Well, I think anyone who has a desire to learn programming should do so. The original debate was about whether or not absolutely everyone should learn at least the basics of programming, regardless of their passion or career. It was a good debate but as always a lot of the titles of the various blog posts involved were very link-baity.
Unfortunately it's too late for me - I decided years ago (in favour of learning). However you're right, both articles (and associated discussions) had excellent points and were well worth reading.
Well, I think anyone who has a desire to learn programming should do so. The original debate was about whether or not absolutely everyone should learn at least the basics of programming, regardless of their passion or career. It was a good debate but as always a lot of the titles of the various blog posts involved were very link-baity.