“Coding is fundamental to literacy in the future,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering. “We think coding should be required in every school because it’s as important as any kind of second language,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “In fifteen years we’ll be teaching programming just like reading and writing, and wondering why we didn’t do it sooner,” says Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook. As computing continues to become a bigger part of our lives we have long heard technologists tell us that coding will be the global common language of the future. Taught in schools as a basic skill in order to provide children the ability to thrive in the modern world and drive innovation in the inevitably digital future. While there is little doubt that the future will be increasingly computerized, recent developments suggest that we may not need coding skills to create and innovate in the digital realm. […]