"The first step is letting people know that learning to code is not that hard, and that if they put their mind to it they have a high chance of succeeding." Is

"The first step is letting people know that learning to code is not that hard, and that if they put their mind to it they have a high chance of succeeding." Is this even true? I think it's pretty well documented that the vast majority of the population actually has a high chance of failing. Look at failure rates in intro CS courses. Remember this? http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/separating-programming-sheep-from-non-programming-goats.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/separating-programm...