Cisco's Liz Centoni emphasizes the continued importance of coding as a foundational skill in technology, arguing it aids in problem-solving, especially for complex data issues. While a computer science degree isn't mandatory, she believes creative thinking and business acumen are critical. Centoni, with nearly 25 years at Cisco, recalls how her early coding experience helped her tackle everyday challenges effectively. She insists on the necessity of coding concepts in contemporary problem-solving, particularly in environments dealing with structured and unstructured data.
Centrally, one of my strengths is being able to look at a problem, break it down, bring in data, make a hypothesis, and test for it.
We have boring problems that have lots of data underneath it. It has thousands of employees who work at it.
Foundational concepts like coding need to be brought forward to address today's challenges because the world isn't just solving linear computer science problems today.
Learning to code is still relevant in tech today, as it trains the way you think around how to solve for problems.
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