> Is programming learnable or you born with it? FWIW... Programming has been a hobby of mine since Christmas day of 1983, but it literally never occurred to me

> Is programming learnable or you born with it? FWIW... Programming has been a hobby of mine since Christmas day of 1983, but it literally never occurred to me to go into IT professionally because, for much of my life, i assumed that everyone who works with computers is a proverbial Einstein. In 1995 i rather accidentally ended up at Compaq computers, only to quickly realize that's not the case at all. Some 95% of the company was marketing, sales, infrastructure, and manufacturing, and only a minority of the folks who worked in the software side of things were what i would call "computationally gifted" (and i certainly was not, and still am not, one of them). You don't _have_ to be born with any particular gift for it. Obviously, it helps (i've worked with many people who do have such gifts, and they operate on a whole other level), but most IT skills are things that most of us can pick up over time without any particular inborn knack. The IT field is broad enough that, even if you find that you aren't a Grade A game programmer, you may well find that you are good at scripting automation for DevOps or server administration or some other sub-field you don't yet know exists. Despite having very nearly 40 years of programming behind me, i still consider game programming to be largely beyond my limits. i do relatively well at the library-level of programming, though, and that's where i spend most of my development time (primarily in C, but that is, as they say, an "implementation detail"). Games are _hard_ to program. Low-level data serialization, on the other hand, comes relatively easily to me. i can get by, on a technical level, just fine with CSS, but _completely lack_ the artistic eye needed to make it _look_ good. Explore and find your niche(s). Maybe it's not JS game programming or CSS, but there are thousands of other IT-related skills out there to try out. 0.02€ and all that.