Visual content creation tools such as Scratch, DWNLD and Telerik will continue to improve until all functionality required to build apps is available to consumers — without having to write a line of code.
Most people don’t find coding enthralling or interesting enough to continue to pursue it as a career. Given the changing nature of software, they probably shouldn’t.
Who needs to code when you can use visual building blocks or even plain English to describe intent?
given that the best a coding academy can hope for is to ignite passion in a small percentage of users and then publicize successful outliers to propagate the illusion of “coding for everyone.” It turns out that learning to translate intent to a non-human foreign language is pretty daunting, even with handholding instruction. It’s certainly not for the mass market.
to code, one must become very good at deconstructing problems into their most basic steps and spelling them out for the idiot box.
Apps of any appreciable complexity are constructed with a tremendous number of text files. As an example, just our GameSalad Creator app consists of 6,972,123 lines of code spread over 41,702 files. That’s equivalent to a book with 116,202 pages.
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