&gt; I was chatting with a friend of a friend the other day who mentioned she was thinking about taking Epicodus. Out loud, I said &quot;Oh, that&#x27;s awesome! I really hope you do it.&quot; But in my head, I was worried. What if she wasn&#x27;t good at programming? What if she didn&#x27;t do well in the class? What if she didn&#x27;t get a job afterwards?<p>I have that feeling whenever I commend _anyone_ for planning to learn to code. I don&#x27;t know the specifics of this case, and whether the author would have been unreservedly gung ho about a guy talking about his plans to learn to code, but under the impulse to have faith in my empathetic capabilities, I generally resist the author&#x27;s thought process as a kind of self-indulgent false modesty, rather than true insight. This might sound like a kind of &quot;I&#x27;m not racist, I&#x27;m xenophobic&quot; reasoning, but as a lot of people on this forum believe: learning to code is really hard and we shouldn&#x27;t be so hard on ourselves when we are skeptical of others&#x27; abilities to learn how to do it.