Comment by RhodesianHunter

I know I'll catch flak for this, but where did this idea that "anyone can learn to code" come from? Coding requires a certain drive and curiosity, without delving into the capability side. What makes anyone think that they can take a bunch of people who never or barely passed highschool and have been working in a mine for a decade+ and teach them this?

By all means subsidize a laptop and point them at some great online (free) resources, but beyond that if they won't/can't help themselves...