I approve of people learning to be programmer professionally or as a hobby, I think it is a good thing.
But this repeated media phenomenon of people learning to code is something that really worry me -- it is like 1999 again.
It feels like when mainstream media writes that it is time to invest in the stock market; when e.g. Time write about how good it is going, it is so far over the hill that soon there will be a crash...
Obviously nothing to do with more women learning to code (sounds great to me), but I share your fear. The hype makes me cringe a little bit. I wish it didn't but I've seen this cycle too many times. Every time there is an overhyped market, the deflation gets preceded with a media push of 'you should get involved with this' because its the wave of the future.
But this repeated media phenomenon of people learning to code is something that really worry me -- it is like 1999 again.
It feels like when mainstream media writes that it is time to invest in the stock market; when e.g. Time write about how good it is going, it is so far over the hill that soon there will be a crash...