Not everyone needs to be coding since they are 10 and end end up as a top software engineer in some hot tech startup.
But I definitely agree that basic programming and database skills would be beneficial to almost everyone following any professional career.
Take my mom as an example: she's a very skilled doctor working with kidney transplant in Brazil. There are lots of software programs written to help them, but she's always ahead of time and trying to do some magic with the massive data she has access to, playing with graphs and spreadsheets.... and I sometimes (little time) help her to put some little tool up..
I can only imagine where her ideas would be if she had basic programming skills...
But I definitely agree that basic programming and database skills would be beneficial to almost everyone following any professional career.
Take my mom as an example: she's a very skilled doctor working with kidney transplant in Brazil. There are lots of software programs written to help them, but she's always ahead of time and trying to do some magic with the massive data she has access to, playing with graphs and spreadsheets.... and I sometimes (little time) help her to put some little tool up..
I can only imagine where her ideas would be if she had basic programming skills...