Where was the proof presented for this? That idea doesn&#x27;t sit well with me at all. Maybe they meant to say that it&#x27;s hard for most people to want to sit still and stare at text all day. It&#x27;s hard to ignore urges to go out rather than stay inside and read tutorials on the web.<p>I don&#x27;t think programming itself is hard. Most people program. It&#x27;s just that they do it without thinking about the steps they&#x27;re programming, and they do it without a computer. Parents program all the time, &quot;If you don&#x27;t finish your homework before 7 PM, then you will not get dessert!&quot;<p>I think this is an article, and one with votes on here, because it&#x27;s flattering the audience. Maybe say complicated mathematics is hard. But not &quot;coding&quot;. That&#x27;s what dumb people like me do who prefer to stay inside and play around with text on a computer. Of all the possible jobs I can think of, coding is near the bottom of the list in terms of difficulty. Anything involving a jackhammer is much rougher.