"Despite the mystique, coding is not an art." I would think it is much more of an art than writing magazine articles. Anyone can be taught to write book-review

"Despite the mystique, coding is not an art." I would think it is much more of an art than writing magazine articles. Anyone can be taught to write book-reviews, even coal-miners. Coding is like making new calculations per each new program. Sure everybody with reasonable intellect can be taught to do that. But it's still an art. Not everybody wants to do that. You need some inclination. But I guess what the author is saying is that he was "mystified" by what is coding before and is not so mystified anymore having been explained how it works.