I think one big problem is the expectations. People think that they can learn a lot of programming in 3 months or 1 year or something. I think it takes a lot of

I think one big problem is the expectations. People think that they can learn a lot of programming in 3 months or 1 year or something. I think it takes a lot of time, unless you happen to be "hardwired" for it. As someone wrote there are a lot of developers coming out from an education which still has a lot to learn. That means you might need 3 years of education and 1-2 years of practical work experience to actually learn. Or you could start when you're 8 and do it by yourself for over 10 years. When you are 20 you probably knows a lot about programming or you will have stopped already. Try to explain to people wanting to learn how to code that it might take 3-5 years, then they can choose if this is something they want. Or sell simple 1 year courses but explain that they will only learn a small subset then.