I think learning to code _is_ easy. I've recently pointed a friend towards FreeCodeCamp, he's never tried development but was asking about it (previous non-tec

I think learning to code _is_ easy. I've recently pointed a friend towards FreeCodeCamp, he's never tried development but was asking about it (previous non-tech related jobs) so I pointed him to the website. Yesterday he must have spent 8 hours doing tutorials, occasionally asking questions and has started building his first website. He's beginning to pick up the basic building blocks of programming, not for loops and if blocks, but data structures, debugging (Chrome is amazing), etc. I think the hardest part of learning to code is choosing a language and deciding what to build. The rest is Stack Overflow and online tutorials. Oh, and a whole lot of time. Sure to become an "Expert" you'll need to learn about a vast range of things that are not code, but affect code - like security, best practices, readability and maintainability, different stacks, etc. But getting your foot in the door with the basics is pretty easy.