I can't say about others but since I know a bit about programming I think programming is more about experience than intelligence or iq. I think it's like any ot

I can't say about others but since I know a bit about programming I think programming is more about experience than intelligence or iq. I think it's like any other skill that we hone with time and at least in my case we subconsciously pick up things while debugging and looking at other people's code, snippets and examples that makes us better as we get older.