I've worked with and trained quite a few people over the past 15 years and, though I don't really say it to anybody, I do think great programmers are born not m

I've worked with and trained quite a few people over the past 15 years and, though I don't really say it to anybody, I do think great programmers are born not made. Though you can be made into a pretty good programmer that can be a great player on a team. And you can also be a great programmer who is lazy and doesn't live up to their potential. But you can see it in their ideas and way of solving problems.