But I think learning to code is important because it is what attracts creatives, and both creatives and engineers are needed in development.
You're guessing here (and you admit it), but I'm a very strong data point for the opposite. Anyone who knows me would tell you I'm creative (I started out, and still am a filmmaker and it's all I'd do if I could afford it).
I had thousand of hours of computer science before I wrote my first line of code, at age 20, and I didn't seriously get into coding until I was 24.
So no, I don't think coding and creativity have any link whatsoever. I find CS extremely creative and enjoyable, much more so than coding, which I consider to be "S" work in the Myers-Briggs taxonomy. When I want to be creative, I step back into CS mode.
You're guessing here (and you admit it), but I'm a very strong data point for the opposite. Anyone who knows me would tell you I'm creative (I started out, and still am a filmmaker and it's all I'd do if I could afford it).
I had thousand of hours of computer science before I wrote my first line of code, at age 20, and I didn't seriously get into coding until I was 24.
So no, I don't think coding and creativity have any link whatsoever. I find CS extremely creative and enjoyable, much more so than coding, which I consider to be "S" work in the Myers-Briggs taxonomy. When I want to be creative, I step back into CS mode.