I think "learning to code" is more ambiguous. I have a designer friend getting in to web design - I've helped him out pick up some jQuery - he learned the stuff

I think "learning to code" is more ambiguous. I have a designer friend getting in to web design - I've helped him out pick up some jQuery - he learned the stuff that was useful to him pretty fast. Is he a programmer ? No. Can he write code ? Yes. So yea writing code is easy, copy-paste and replace the stuff that seems relevant to you, especially when you have a quick iteration method like a REPL. Control flow might take a while to fully grasp but still it's not hard to understand, but takes practice to get comfortable with.