I think he did preface "anyone can learn how to code" with the phrase "...with some hard work and a little math & science understanding". I do believe that bro

I think he did preface "anyone can learn how to code" with the phrase "...with some hard work and a little math & science understanding". I do believe that broad literacy in programming would be beneficial. Going beyond my obviously biased opinion that programming helps you understand your world better, I believe that broad literacy in programming will advance our technology faster and bring us further than we could have ever imagined, because we'll have more people per capita who are able to maintain and understand the way our increasingly-complex world works. The fact that not everyone who wants to be a programmer actually sticks with it enough to become one is also a good thing. It's certainly not for everyone. But there are plenty of people, especially kids, who might find this kind of stuff interesting, but aren't being exposed to it enough for it to be a reality.