alt Hacker News> What is hard about it? Young children seem to pick it up with ease. It cannot be that hard?
They do? I've known plenty of kids and young adults who utterly failed to become even borderline competent at programming.
> What is hard about it? Young children seem to pick it up with ease. It cannot be that hard?
They do? I've known plenty of kids and young adults who utterly failed to become even borderline competent at programming.
They don't? It is taught in schools in the early elementary level. I see no indication that most are failing.
I think we can agree that few of them would be economically useful due to not knowing what to program. There is no sign of competency on that front. Certainly, even the best programmer in the world could theoretically be economically useless. Programmers only become economically useful when they can bridge "what to program".