It's definitely time to stop deifying programmers, but I'd stop short of saying that it doesn't require talent. Every skill or trade requires some measure of ta

It's definitely time to stop deifying programmers, but I'd stop short of saying that it doesn't require talent. Every skill or trade requires some measure of talent. I pay my bills by being a perfectly average software developer. Luckily I was naive enough to dive into it even though I didn't have a CS degree. I'd hate to think that anyone getting started today would be discouraged by this attitude that programming is a skill bequeathed at birth to a lucky few.