Coding is one aspect of digital making. When you write code, you are writing instructions for a computer to follow. The instructions might just be "turn this graphic by one degree each second", or ...

BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 18: A fourth-grade student reads a book with her teacher in the elementary school at the John F. Kennedy Schule dual-language public school on September 18, 2008 in Berlin, Germany.

Is coding a necessary competency that kids need to learn? Or does the large specter of AI on the horizon and some grim prognostications have you questioning if signing your kid up for summer coding ...