My thoughts are that programming is easy. After all an average 8 year old can do it. What is hard is modeling large, complex problems and systems in code, that

My thoughts are that programming is easy. After all an average 8 year old can do it. What is hard is modeling large, complex problems and systems in code, that meets its functional and non-functional requirements. The superior “programmer” is one who can to some degree perform the latter. Of course few organizations have any way to quantify these superior skills, resulting in the rote textbook question and IQ interviews that today defines a “programmer”