It is a beautiful Monday morning and you are on your way to
work. You stop at your local coffee shop for your caffeine fix and
witness the barista struggling to move a 2kg bag of medium roasted
Brazilian coffee beans. Without hesitating you ask the barista:
"do you even lift bro?", referring to his apparent lack
of muscular strength. Customers in the shop have a great laugh, the
barista is disgusted and off to work you go.
However, in today's day and age, we do no longer need to
lift bro as we simply need to code bro. We can write code to
instruct an artificial barista to prepare the perfect cup of bliss
whilst simultaneously shifting around great amounts of coffee
beans. The opportunities are endless and creating software, that
is, coding), is becoming a more and more valuable skill to have. So
much so that grade 1 school kids are even being taught coding it as
part of their curriculum. Not being able to operate basic computer
tasks will lead to "do you even code