Barack Obama Becomes the First President to Write Code (techcrunch.com)

he wrote a little blurp of code that renders a square on the screen

and it is a few lines of JavaScript to render a square, looks like it is pair programming ;-)

Rather than promote coding (which is a good thing regardless) shouldn't we be promoting the mindset and how to approach problems as a programmer?

Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8720164