Great post. The HN community is totally biased because most folks here are very comfortable programming. What this biases is the ability for this community to imagine that it's a lot harder for a lot of other people to program than it is for them. If it weren't, you wouldn't be in such high demand at such terrific salaries.
Programming is hard, especially for minds that are not well accustomed to breaking things into linear series of events. I have a visual mind, for example, but have a lot of trouble turning multi-dimensional concepts into linear programming treatment.
Just as we would not suggest everyone would be capable of calculus, we can't expect everyone to program. Now we can expect everyone to have some exposure to calculus, and I think many folks just would like to see the masses have some exposure to programming. And that's great.
But please do recognize that programming is not intuitive for everyone!
Programming is hard, especially for minds that are not well accustomed to breaking things into linear series of events. I have a visual mind, for example, but have a lot of trouble turning multi-dimensional concepts into linear programming treatment.
Just as we would not suggest everyone would be capable of calculus, we can't expect everyone to program. Now we can expect everyone to have some exposure to calculus, and I think many folks just would like to see the masses have some exposure to programming. And that's great.
But please do recognize that programming is not intuitive for everyone!