Is Code Language? Why is Digital Literacy Important?

 Code is most certainly a language but it is the language of the computer. The computer can't do what you don’t know how to tell it. Digital Literacy is important for several arguable reasons, first and foremost the computer will always be faster and remember more than the best person in any profession. As in the old saying two heads are better than one, the best professional is even better when they can program a computer to make their job easier or expand their abilities where they are lacking. Currently a lot of fields use a programmer to write their programs for them but the information can be limited when the programmer knows little about the field he is writing the program for and in turn the person that knows the field does not realize the potential for what the software may be able to do for them. Aside from the fact you can have a single person do the job of two, making it cheaper, the time two people take communicating and restructuring software could take much longer. What I consider particularly important is the missed creativity from an individual to bring a fantastic story to life the way they see it or an idea enhanced the way they envision. As pointed out in We can code it! by Tasneem Raja software developers who were working on a website in Boston found a way to not only help the community, but to save lives as well. You do not need to be a programmer, just to understand a simple interface with computers in their own language. Just because a person is a banker should not limit his creativity to banking. Knowing how to produce that interactive story or idea could provide the world with an otherwise missed achievement of brilliance.