Why You Need to Learn Coding?

Let's be honest, computers are everywhere.

• In your office: Where you spend almost all of your working time. 
• In your pockets: Smartphones is a portable computer.
• On your wrists: Watches are now a very small computer.
• In your house: TVs today have an operating system that lets you watch streaming movies.
• In you living room: You now have TV "sticks" that you plug-in to your HDMI TVs to become smart.
• You also have gaming consoles with games and apps that you can buy.
• In your car: Like the Tesla electric cars which has a large dashboard touchscreen, where you can control your car (and a phone app for that matter).

Then there's the Internet of things which is defined in wiki:

"The Internet of Things (IoT, sometimes Internet of Everything) is the network of physical objects or "things" embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and connectivity to enable objects to exchange data with the manufacturer, operator and/or other connected devices based on the infrastructure of International Telecommunication Union's Global Standards Initiative.[1] The Internet of Things allows objects to be sensed and controlled remotely across existing network infrastructure,[2] creating opportunities for more direct integration between the physical world and computer-based systems, and resulting in improved efficiency, accuracy and economic benefit.[3][4][5][6][7] Each thing is uniquely identifiable through its embedded computing system but is able to interoperate within the existing Internet infrastructure. Experts estimate that the IoT will consist of almost 50 billion objects by 2020."

From stoves, to microwave ovens, to rice cookers, to refrigerators, to washing machine- all of the appliances we have at home will have software for it to run.

In conclusion, we need to learn coding. We need our kids to learn early, so they can be prepared on the onslaught of things which can be programmed to be efficient in the near future.

Nintendo Family Computer

Who doesn't remember the iconic family computer?

When I was a kid, I go to my neighbor just to play famicom all day playing little mac, punching bulls and even quirky opponents, figuring out its fighting patterns and ultimately winning the boxing game.

I hardly win without their help.

Those were the wonder years in my life: fun, free-spirited, stay-up all night playing, playing AND playing games.

Even when I got out from elementary alive, I played street brawling with new friends in hs. We escape from hs fair jumping fences, eluding security guards and went straight to the mall playing like a martial arts fighter who looks like Jacky Chan, or Bruce Lee and a fighter that resembles Vanilla Ice and a monster who is a woman? With a back-drop of supersonic jets, religious temples, cage fighting arenas and even a crowded flea market.

Later on, I can remember playing with relatives a game of tennis that features rock stars like you and me. Then, there's also the bowling game that even my less than ten year old niece, showing me how to do it and beating me every game.

Then later on, I saw my nieces playing Super Mario Bros. on 3DS while wondering why I never played.

Well, that's life.