Never quite sure of the value of all this...
It seems that the most successful are usually way ahead of the game (as would seem the correspondent's boy) before any of this gets taught.
Just more political messing around with education - "Get everyone coding, even if they don't want to. Great Idea, bound to get us a few more column inches in the paper - let's do it!".
Not everyone wants to or needs to know how to code. Not everyone is interested in knowing how a computer works. Those that are interested will find out for themselves and will probably know more than the poor sod trying to teach those kids not interested.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
