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"Everyone should learn to write, but not everyone should be a professional writer."

But, it's not that we want "everyone to learn to code"; what we really want is for everyone to learn how to use computers to build powerful simulations so that they can test and explore interesting and complicated ideas.

Certain issues, like climate change, become much more tractable to discuss once you start using Excel rather than Word.




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