Mernit: Basic HTML and CSS will become essential skills for adults
Susan Mernit · a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code? · Jan 2, 2019 · at 1:39
Susan Mernit, founder of Hack the Hood and former product executive, defines code literacy and discusses future skill requirements for adults.
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“I think that everyone today more and more is going to need how to, need to know how to write basic HTML, to understand CSS, to have some of the tools to manipulate environments that they live in, and that includes different kinds of scripting. So whether it's using some kind of library or assembler, or it's actually learning how to write a specific coding language, I think we're all going to find that more and more those are going to become part of the tool set for being an adult in the world.”
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