Programming involves a spectrum of diverging skills and specialties, at the low end, it is relatively easy. I have seen people with very limited programming sk

Programming involves a spectrum of diverging skills and specialties, at the low end, it is relatively easy. I have seen people with very limited programming skills leverage what they know in spreadsheets, scripts, and other tools such that it makes them a lot more productive. Career programmers span a wide range of the spectrum, many leverage other domain specialties. I would say most deal with moderate problems where there are mostly known solutions and often it's a matter of having the skills and knowledge to craft something together that is appropriate for the task at hand, much more like engineering.