All very encouraging, good comments, but I disagree.
Its easy to 'code', harder to design, debug, structure, deconstruct, architect.
So sure, code away, make that webpage or service. But you know who's creating the ecosystem you're 'coding' in? Somebody that started as a kid, dedicated their life to computers and software, lives and breathes multiprocess automata or whatever.
So everybody is right, sure, and there's lots of money to be made in coding so don't be afraid to jump right in. But like athletics or physics or whatever, either be a savant or study all your life, but don't fool yourself.
Don't fool yourself about what? That it's never too late to learn to program? I don't really understand the significance of who created the "ecosystem" I program in. What's an ecosystem, to you? Why does it matter who created it?
I don't get your point but it sounds vaguely insulting.
I find it explicitely insulting to claim 'programming isn't all that hard; anybody can do it'.
Its Pollyanna to say "you can be a programmer! Anybody can!" without explaining the layers of the onion. You can be a (passable) applications programmer with a little effort. The rest takes sweat and study, sometimes years of it.
Its easy to 'code', harder to design, debug, structure, deconstruct, architect.
So sure, code away, make that webpage or service. But you know who's creating the ecosystem you're 'coding' in? Somebody that started as a kid, dedicated their life to computers and software, lives and breathes multiprocess automata or whatever.
So everybody is right, sure, and there's lots of money to be made in coding so don't be afraid to jump right in. But like athletics or physics or whatever, either be a savant or study all your life, but don't fool yourself.