For the brilliant the starting point won't matter. For the average getting to results fast will. Too many people have mental blocks of "programming is too hard

For the brilliant the starting point won't matter. For the average getting to results fast will. Too many people have mental blocks of "programming is too hard". That is, until they see 2+2 or print 'hello world' and it just works. Far more average people out there than brilliant, let's focus on those and let the geniuses fend for themselves, i'm sure they'll do fine.