Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I believe that the bar of entry to programming has always been low. On Windows, some environment are just an exe away. And web d

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I believe that the bar of entry to programming has always been low. On Windows, some environment are just an exe away. And web dev can be done with Notepad. And there are many introductions books and video tutorials. What is hard for most people is formalism and detailing your idea as a sequence of steps, aka the programming mindset. Writing code was always easy (Before AI, we had copy-paste from the internet). But whether you're writing assembly or python, you still need the programming mindset and that's the first step. Then you need to learn software engineering (code hygiene, requirement gathering, tasks planning,...)