{"id":36979,"date":"2012-05-17T03:18:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T03:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-importance-of-learning-to-code-isnt-so-that\/"},"modified":"2012-05-17T03:18:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T03:18:47","slug":"the-importance-of-learning-to-code-isnt-so-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-importance-of-learning-to-code-isnt-so-that\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The importance of learning to code isn\u2019t so that everyone will write code, and bury the world under billions of lines of badly conceived Python, Java, and Ruby. The importance of code is that it\u2019s a part of the world we live in. I\u2019ve had enough of legislators who think the Internet is about tubes, who haven\u2019t the slightest idea about legitimate uses for file transfer utilities, and no concept at all about what privacy (and the invasion of privacy) might mean in an online space. I\u2019ve had enough of patent inspectors who approve patents for which prior art has existed for decades. And I\u2019ve had enough of judges making rulings after listening to lawyers arguing about technologies they don\u2019t understand. Learning to code won\u2019t solve these problems, but coding does force engagement with technology on a level other than pure ignorance. Coding is a part of cultural competence, even if you never do it professionally. Alsup is a modern hero.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2012\/05\/judge-alsup-codes.html\">A federal judge learned to code &#8211; O\u2019Reilly Radar<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/everythingisdisrupted.tumblr.com\/\">everythingisdisrupted<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/217hZ.gif\" width=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The importance of learning to code isn\u2019t so that everyone will write code, and bury the world under billions of lines of badly conceived Python, Java, and Ruby. The importance of code is that it\u2019s a part of the world we live in. I\u2019ve had enough of legislators who think the Internet is about tubes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-36979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9Cr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}