Having programming experience is absolutely not a requirement for understanding the technicalities of what software does No, but having experience and knowledg

Having programming experience is absolutely not a requirement for understanding the technicalities of what software does No, but having experience and knowledge about computers in general is required to make a decision on, say, whether a mouse-over event is innovative. There's a short clip of Feynman describing the problem here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM&feature=player_detailpage#t=66s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM&feature=playe... And yes, people are that clueless about "computer stuff" that they could just as well have been from another planet.