Coding!

Yes, sure, we all should be able to write code, aka to write our own computer programs. The hip programming language these days is Python, but that may/will change in the next 10 years. Now what...what programming language should you learn? The obvious answer: it does not matter - what matters are the underlying concepts and structured thinking. So, learn whatever is popular today and be ready for change down the road. Or (gasp!) forget traditional coding, go with something visual, and let someone else worry about how that all looks as 'code'. Here are three examples:

• MIT App Inventor. App Inventor is a cloud-based tool to build apps right in your web browser.
• MIT Scratch. You can 'program' your own interactive stories, games, and animations and share your creations with others in the online community.
• Esri ModelBuilder. Who needs Python when you can automate your workflows with ModelBuilder!