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Why Learning Code Still Matters

Why understanding code remains a powerful creative and engineering skill even as AI tools improve.

By David Martelli

AI can generate code, but that does not make coding irrelevant. It makes understanding code more important. Learners who know how programs work can ask better questions, evaluate AI output, debug problems, and shape tools instead of simply accepting them.

Coding is also a creative medium. It lets students build games, simulations, robots, websites, apps, and interactive systems that respond to their ideas.

At Guild Hall, coding sits alongside design, engineering, and making because it gives learners another way to turn imagination into something functional.