Given a few hours & Google access, some people who've never written a line of code in their lives will be able to figure out how to solve FizzBuzz, and some will not. If you just *tell* them how to do it & they write the code, they've become a syntax-translator, not a programmer.
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I would predict the ones with high interest.
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Desire/curiosity & competence form an incredible feedback loop, but I don't think it's fair to ascertain from that that anyone can learn to code. For one thing, it makes it very easy to say to yourself that anyone you failed to teach effectively simply didn't care enough.
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Maybe you’ve never held someone through their tears who’d sunk everything into a coding program, had been through several months of full-time instruction, had stayed late with the instructors at every opportunity, and just *couldn’t get it* like everyone else. I have. They exist.
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That's a tragic pedagogical - not neurological - problem. There are prerequisites to learning anything, and, in this case, nobody guessed the missing prerequisite or how to teach it. Perhaps it's never been taught explicitly, and nobody who's learned it knows how they did so.
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Sure, that's as reasonable a take as any. I don't think we even have a very good understanding of what that skill is, much less how some people come to have it. I'm definitely not claiming ability is an innate/immutable thing, just that *currently* not everyone can learn to code
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...and that fact can change irrevocably, at any moment, without warning, without neurosurgery, and at a profit, if some enterprising soul solves the pedagogical problem in question.
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