Just like with Maths, I think that to effectively learn programming, you have to believe that you're good at it... Unfortunately, it has become harder for peopl

Just like with Maths, I think that to effectively learn programming, you have to believe that you're good at it... Unfortunately, it has become harder for people to convince themselves of this because the tooling required to build simple software is much more complex than it used to be. I think that new developers are exposed to more complexity earlier on and so they are more likely to get overwhelmed. It's not quite the slow-paced discovery process that it used to be. New developers have more visibility of the road ahead... And it's a damn long road.