Programming For the Rest Of Us - Why?

For some people, it will just be obvious that everyone should be able to program. Others may consider this to be something for geeks or digitheads to do. We are not looking to teach people conventional programming languages, as there are lots of others interested in that. Rather we want to bring "programming" to the people, rather than expect people to go to programming.

In this page, we will explain some of the reasons we think this is so important.

Political

When only a small fraction of the population controls the levers of the economy and society, you are on the path to revolution and/or totalitarianism.

When did Tech guys become Bad guys? Change the World

Social: Equity

Social: Problem Solving

Have we outsourced our curiosity to Google? an interview with Ian Leslie about his book: Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It

Miscellaneous