Impact of Coding in Primary Curriculum on IT industry

With the introduction of #Coding in Primary Schools, there is one question that’s lingering around - How will it change the IT industry?

The IT industry is no longer what it was 10 years ago. BPO jobs are far less due to automation. Plenty of robust development frameworks have reduced the requirement for programmers. Cloud has reduced jobs in the server, hardware, and network administration. We don’t see a lot of shops assembling and selling PCs as the branded laptop and PC has captured almost the entire market.

Let’s evaluate various possibilities and impacts of the government’s decision to introduce coding in primary schools on the already transitioning IT industry:

1) Science has been taught in schools for decades but how many of us actually implement those scientific principles in real life? It is wrong to believe that teaching coding in primary schools will bring an earth-shaking revolution, as the impact finally depends on execution.

2) It raises a drastic need for teachers who can teach coding, initially in the next 3-5 years. A portion of staff laid-off by IT companies may get absorbed here. There is a possibility that some of the good programmers may find it interesting to teach coding to kids and may leave their jobs for that. So, the loss of talent may happen. Like Havi Code is aggressive in both, hiring teachers and getting new students enrolled.

3) Knowledge of coding will bring IT companies closer to schools for interactions at various levels. Kids would be part of user testing teams of companies. Interaction with kids will bring a lot of new ideas, innovations, and possibilities of new products for industry.

4) The need for ordinary website designers (which is already reduced at this moment) will be very less as kids would be able to handle this through frameworks like Wix to WordPress on the cloud.

5) The push of coding at the primary level will open up opportunities for new disciplines of specialization in domains like IoT, AI, and others.

6) It will accelerate tech adaptability in general, resulting in a boost of revenue for the industry.

7) All kids may not become great coders, but for sure will turn into good, knowledgeable IT users.

8) Awareness and implementation of IoT would accelerate, more than anything else.

9) A pool of brilliant teens may start serving as freelancers and will give a tough competition in the already crammed job market.