- lots of push back : Jeff Atwood (software developer) Does Mayor of New York need to code? Do we all need to be plumbers? Do we need more code? It’s about SOLUTIONS\n- Rands in Response: learn to write\n- structured thinking: not for everyone\n- coding teaches analytic thinking skills, logic workflows, debugging (Gina Trapini - ThinkUp)\n- Benjamin Stein (mobile commons NY) - Atwood confusing coding with professional software development\n- it can be helpful - if you work closely with tech people and want to communicate\n- define better solutions: Gina Trapini. Explain ideas well so programmers can translate them to code, be able to anticipate changes. (blog Menu and Hours: iPhone app from kick-starter)\n
- code rots, will this movement?\n- time will tell about enthusiasm\n
