I respectfully disagree. Learning to read is a necessary skill where most of the world's information is written - but to be productive, to create, to contribute, you have to learn to write. Code is the same: whether that's a good thing or not, more and more of your surrounding, of your environment will depend on - code. Fortunately, a lot of services have made it very easy to contribute to this augmented world without coding yourself, but you will not be able to understand the basic mechanics of this augmented environment without basic code literacy.

Why should a mayor learn to code? Well, I don't expect him to be a Java nut, but I do expect leaders in politics to grasp the basics of privacy, security, productivity, cost and benefits of the coded world surrounding us.