We like to think programming is hard and that there's a barrier to entry that we somehow surmounted because we're oh so smart. But does anyone here actually kn

We like to think programming is hard and that there's a barrier to entry that we somehow surmounted because we're oh so smart. But does anyone here actually know people who learned to program within the last couple years? My co-founder's girlfriend taught herself enough Javascript and React to help out on our front-end in a couple months. Had no experience except for dabbling in Wordpress. Now closes issues for us. My buddy learned enough Python to create a GUI for an old card game. Built it to completion enough to challenge himself against the computer player. Hasn't programmed since. Neither of them had any experience before. These posts really underrate the resourcefulness and intelligence of beginners. And my suspicion is because we like to think it's hard. People here act like installing Homebrew to download python3 is somehow hard for a beginner when there are hundreds of tutorials online telling them how to do it. Hundreds of tutorials are exactly what I didn't have when I started programming Basic even though the hello-world was a little simpler.