>>> It's not hard to code, children do it. I think a paradox of programming is that we know it's easy, yet we also know that a certain fraction of people -- pe

>>> It's not hard to code, children do it. I think a paradox of programming is that we know it's easy, yet we also know that a certain fraction of people -- perhaps a majority -- will never grasp how to do it effectively. And the ones who can do it well enough to get paid for it, aren't sticking around in low paying administrative jobs. And coding well enough to really replace a spreadsheet without making something even worse is yet a higher level of programming skill. Given the virtually ubiquitous knowledge that programming skill is of market value, I think the existing proportion of people who can program is indicative of how many people are potentially capable of it. I don't know a single manager or engineer who doesn't think that learning a little bit of Python would be useful.