coding is cool, when needed. Wrote tic-tac-toe programs in a simplified BASIC in elementary school.
I wrote in HTML back in the last century, then programs like “Dreamweaver” made it un-necessary. Ajax in this century. And now everything is .NET. oh well, keep the pencils (styli) sharp boys (& girls and “yet-to-decides”).
But so much can be done without the need to write code “long hand”. Lots of great, existing software does it for you.
SQL Studio has made re-usable segments copy-and-paste simple. Most other environments have a similar functionality.
We will always need long hand coding, but that is increasingly for a VERY few. Most simply won’t have the need for it.
Or by the time you learn to write in the new code “language”, something else will become all the rage.
All the coding I know I learned on FreeRepublic.com.