> ” Am I wrong? Is software really not that hard, and able to be learned later in life?” What? Of course you are wrong. It sounds completely alien to me why s

> ” Am I wrong? Is software really not that hard, and able to be learned later in life?” What? Of course you are wrong. It sounds completely alien to me why someone would even have such doubt. It sounds arrogant too. Anyway, to your question, tell people to try for themselves for some time and let them discover if they have joy coding something. Joy is important. It is completely ok to get into software development for the money, but if you don’t enjoy the daily work of programming something the chances of you get a rewarding career out of it are slim - personally and financially. Software development is different from some fields in that you have to continuously study software development. That does not really happens with most office jobs (marketing, HR, finance, sales) and happens in a much slower pace in field jobs (plumbing, carpentry, etc). That’s why joy is important. It is very possible that someone could discover the joy of programming later in life. My personal recommendation is to go with www.freecodecamp.org. Try it for a couple of months and try to identify if you like going through the tasks. And if you get happy after solving a particular trick one. freeCodeCamp is free, well done, with very small tasks that allow you to adapt to any schedule you might have for studying.