Everyone can write but there are still professional writers. There is a difference between being good enough to get at work and good enough that thousands of people read and enjoy your work.
Similarly, basic computational literacy should include being able to knock together a simple CRUD app or running a simulation. That doesn't mean that Joe Plumber is going to be building complex distributed systems any time soon. It will certainly ease the interface between professional programmers and users though. Rather than having to provide complete appliances where every possible user action is accounted and coded for ahead of time, you can just supply tools that the user applies however they like.
The Unity marketplace looks a bit like this. It turns out there are lots of people who have the desire to make a game and enough skills to handle basic scripting but not enough to build their own physics engine. In the marketplace you can buy level editors, animation engines, pathfinding algorithms etc and glue them together.
Similarly, basic computational literacy should include being able to knock together a simple CRUD app or running a simulation. That doesn't mean that Joe Plumber is going to be building complex distributed systems any time soon. It will certainly ease the interface between professional programmers and users though. Rather than having to provide complete appliances where every possible user action is accounted and coded for ahead of time, you can just supply tools that the user applies however they like.
The Unity marketplace looks a bit like this. It turns out there are lots of people who have the desire to make a game and enough skills to handle basic scripting but not enough to build their own physics engine. In the marketplace you can buy level editors, animation engines, pathfinding algorithms etc and glue them together.