I think the biggest fallacy these days is that "programming is easy". I bet pilots think flying is easy, and surgeons will repeatedly tell you cutting someone o

I think the biggest fallacy these days is that "programming is easy". I bet pilots think flying is easy, and surgeons will repeatedly tell you cutting someone open and removing this vestigial part of the cecum is routine, but if you did that the patient will bleed to death from the first incision. My point is that coding might be easy for you, easy for me, and it must be easy for most people here, but the rest of the world? I'm going to sound like Spock here but most individuals out there aren't logical. People out there don't thing in terms of ¬P->Q, so for them even the basics of programming are very hard, if not impossible to understand. And even if you work around your limitations and learn how to program there's a long way between "hello world" and the engineering behind the kind of stuff that motivates most people to learn how to code, like building the next Google.