Coding IS hard. But I don't think a modicum of programming literacy and logical thinking should be hard. The problem I see in all his examples is the idea of ex

Coding IS hard. But I don't think a modicum of programming literacy and logical thinking should be hard. The problem I see in all his examples is the idea of expectations for the person learning to code, because people who don't code don't have the ability to know how hard a given software endeavor is. Games are the canonical example of something that beginner programmers would want to jump into, but game programming is notoriously tricky and you'd be drowning quickly as someone just getting started. This is exacerbated by the "coding is easy!" marketing mentioned, because they're missing the first two words of the statement. It should read "Getting into coding is easy!". I think people should be able to do basic data manipulation from reading files. I think people should be able read and write simple code in at least one language. I think people should be able to do simple database manipulation. And most importantly, II think people should be able to look at their own lives and recognize when there is something that seems like it should be automated, even if they themselves don't know how they would do it. I don't think that's unreasonable to ask.