{"id":1030880,"date":"2026-08-24T11:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030880"},"modified":"2026-08-24T11:15:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:45:01","slug":"microsoft-to-all-the-students-wondering-whether-it-still-is-worth-learning-how-to-code-the-answer-is-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/24\/microsoft-to-all-the-students-wondering-whether-it-still-is-worth-learning-how-to-code-the-answer-is-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to all the students wondering whether it still is worth learning how to code, the answer is: Now\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Learn, the company&#8217;s official training and certification arm, dropped a single line on X this week that walks straight into the most anxious question in tech education right now. &#8220;If you&#8217;re wondering whether it&#8217;s still worth learning how to code, the answer is: Now more than ever.&#8221; No hedge, no asterisk, no follow-up thread explaining what it really meant.<\/p>\n<p>Coming from Microsoft, the timing reads as either reassuring or slightly cheeky, depending on where you sit. This is the same company whose CEO told a room at Meta&#8217;s LlamaCon that 20% to 30% of the code sitting in Microsoft&#8217;s own repositories was already &#8220;written by software&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Learn, the company&#8217;s official training and certification arm, dropped a single line on X this week that walks straight into the most anxious question in tech education right now. &#8220;If you&#8217;re wondering whether it&#8217;s still worth learning how to code, the answer is: Now more than ever.&#8221; No hedge, no asterisk, no follow-up thread explaining what it really meant. Coming from Microsoft, the timing reads as either reassuring or slightly cheeky, depending on where you sit. This is the same company whose CEO told a room at Meta&#8217;s LlamaCon that 20% to 30% of the code sitting in Microsoft&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030882,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030880\/revisions\/1030882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}