Yes and no.
We are taking small children, I am told, and showing them how to code!
Why?
So the teachers can show them off to their parents.
The teachers are socializing the students, but doing Johnny or Suzy little good. They are far too young to go to work.
There will be a few, who when given a new a computer, will take to it naturally, and quickly become skilled at it, and even become rich (Bill Gates comes to mind).
There will be many more. who are attracted better jobs, will also pick up these skills on their own. And many of these will become teachers of programming so they can show off their special skills.
In this sense, programming is social, and quickly develops many specialties - with lots of money attached to each,
Money, as you know, is intensely social,
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