In my experience of teaching I have to say it depends. Basic coding is rather simple and basically everyone can do that. Actually writing/designing larger app

In my experience of teaching I have to say it depends. Basic coding is rather simple and basically everyone can do that. Actually writing/designing larger applications is a skill most people don't have the time/patience to learn, similar to how most people can write on hackernews/twitter/facebook etc, but only few people can write a novel. Apart from the sequential understanding of how a computer operates, not everyone can express the goal in code that is, for lack of a better word, beautiful. Meaning 'easy' to read/follow, simple, expressive etc. And even less people can document/describe what happens, and even less people can see how the code they uses resources (cpu cycles,wait times,storage,etc) and thus cannot optimize appropriately.