Jim StormdancerOnly 5% of the US population is capable enough to "schedule a meeting room in a scheduling application, using information contained in several email messages."
Remember in the 90s, when teens were more tech savvy than adults, and everyone assumed that the savviest would just keep getting younger? Now it's 2017, and the people who were teens in the 90s are the most tech savvy generation and probably will be until they die.
Kids don't grow up with computers any more, they grow up with iPhones. If it's possible to learn to code on an iPhone, it's despite Apple's best efforts.
Aaron Brady@mogwai_poet I wonder about this. I was the tech-savvy 90's teen (like a lot of folks on here) and I was in a group of 4-5 technophiles in my 800 child school.
I think the media loved "wunderkind" stories and a narrative got built around it. I know a small number of scarily-brilliant teens and university students, but enough to make me feel the ratio is probably similar now.
We wouldn't need "Hour of Code" workshops everywhere if more kids were naturally drawn to coding.
Karen C@insom @mogwai_poet Husband and I were the tech-savvy 80's kids, and now we're raising a tech-savvy-ish kid and seeing some differences. I hand-decompiled my Color Computer's ROM because BASIC wasn't adequate to write a flight sim. Kid wants to code, but can play eleventy-million flight sims just in the browser - so the pressure to learn things is taken away *and* obstructed with "play this shiny object!"