Last semester at community college, forced reading led to more sparknotes use, not REAL engagement. It just turns a fun book into homework for most people.

My friend Alex works in marketing, and she spent hours every week copying data between spreadsheets. A coworker showed her how to write a simple Python script to do it automatically. She didn't become a programmer, but that tiny bit of code saved her a whole workday every month. Makes you wonder where that line really is between computer literacy and useful coding, doesn't it?