To this and comments below - We dance around it all the time, but there is no way around inherent technical complexity of this field. I started out with Pytho

To this and comments below - We dance around it all the time, but there is no way around inherent technical complexity of this field. I started out with Python and Project Euler, went through JS and web apps "ELO hell", picked up some C to understand lower levels, ended up with a microcontroller - then went all the way up to category theory and Haskell / Scala coding. If you ask me if I know how to code, my answer is all the more resolute - It depends. More practical personalities will definitely manage better in current landscape. But the sands are always shifting.