I have always taken it for granted that, just as my parents made sure that I could read and write, I would make sure that my kids could program computers. It is among the newer arts but also among the most essential, and ever more so by the day, encompassing everything from filmmaking to physics.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft