This is true. Lots of IT companies advertise their entry level programming positions as "liberal arts majors with no programming experience welcome!! we'll tea

This is true. Lots of IT companies advertise their entry level programming positions as "liberal arts majors with no programming experience welcome!! we'll teach you how to program". I kid you not. To put it in perspective programming jobs go from around $30,000 to $50,000 per annum depending on experience. That's not a typo (American dollars). Any programmer making more than $100,000 at a Japanese company is either one of the founders and/or sitting on the board.