if i may be so bold, this is an encroaching effort from multiple large players, FAANG included. its a pretty ham-fisted, transparent attempt to get the kids excited about code in much the same way your spanish teacher tried to pump the kids up to learn with a fiesta.
The idea is to increase the number of programmers, decrease the median pay rate of the average programmer, and recapture the excess capital lost from the past 60 years of nerd-shaming that led us to consume more code and tech than we produce.
the only people whining about code not being fun and pushing gamification are the very people who shouldnt be doing it.
Parent thinks there is a fix amount of code needed in the world, and the only reason (some) programmers earn a lot of money is that a relatively small number of people produce that code. They ignore that the cast majority of code generates demand for more code.
Exactly! A successful software project creates a building block. A basic human desire is a) to modify the successful design to perform some other task, and/or 2) to use an existing building block to build something bigger and more complex.
The idea is to increase the number of programmers, decrease the median pay rate of the average programmer, and recapture the excess capital lost from the past 60 years of nerd-shaming that led us to consume more code and tech than we produce.
the only people whining about code not being fun and pushing gamification are the very people who shouldnt be doing it.