Sounds like your CEO has already said to himself, if not yet to you, "how hard can it be?" The truth is coding is not that hard, coding well, is a different ga

Sounds like your CEO has already said to himself, if not yet to you, "how hard can it be?" The truth is coding is not that hard, coding well, is a different game. Does he play sport? Explain that knowing how to hit a ball with a racket does not mean you can win the Open, but learning programming as a comparison doesn't stop there. Imagine all the games in the tournament being played at once, on one court, at the same time. That's how complex applications work, and it's that level of information that programmers routinely have to carry in their heads when they work. Making one change often leads to a cascade of work because making a change in one part can affect the outcome of many other things.