"I've no idea why coding should be anymore special than basic reading/writing skills." Ok - maybe 'learning to write a few lines of code' - i.e. basic algorith

"I've no idea why coding should be anymore special than basic reading/writing skills." Ok - maybe 'learning to write a few lines of code' - i.e. basic algorithms, should be 'no harder than reading or writing' ... or using Excel ... But writing software, on the whole is a fairly intellectual exercise. It requires legit curiosity, intelligence, conscientiousness, etc.. "Code is a way to express solution to the problem which a computer can execute." No, only in it's rudimentary form. If every program was only 20 lines of code, I would agree fully, but since that's not the case, I don't agree at all.