I think you miss the point, which is especially surprising considering how much you've complained about the state of job candidates in the field. The idea is to get more and different types of people coding--the pipeline to jobs in computer programming is fundamentally broken in several places, one of which is the extreme lack of diversity in who enters it. We are missing out on many, many people with the passion, intelligence, and capability to be excellent coders, and these initiatives are one way of mending that.