I think the equivalent here is something like:
stuff = requests.get(“example.com”).json()
print(stuff[“thing”][“I”][“want”])
Same with Excel macros or whatever.
Maybe that person will have a fire lit in them and pursue a software engineering career. Maybe it’ll just be a script on their desktop that cleans up screenshots.
I don’t find that implication insulting even though I’ve spent (now) the majority of my life honing “coding” as a skill.
It’s a mountain to climb, but the first few miles have some pretty nice vistas.
If I memorize one word in a foreign language, am I bilingual?
Here's some rocket science too: t - 10s
I like words to hold clear meanings. If everything is easy because there's one easy thing about it, the word has no meaning. If a coder is anyone who can do Hello World, it's pointless even calling yourself one. It means nothing.
Programming has never had a problem of people thinking it's easy. There are many people who never attempt it because they think it's some impossibly difficult thing that they'll never learn.
Facebook had a commercial where they said something like "we'll hire anyone who can code, it's as easy as learning multiplication tables!" I don't remember the exact quote but those outreach programs but it felt a bit ridiculous at the time.
If you say something is easy and a person fails at it, they'll feel worse when they fail. If you acknowledge it's challenging at first they're better fit to handle it with grit and keep trying. Programming is something you're going to have to fail at continuously before you get it. And if afterwards you say, "see wasn't that easy?" there's no sense of accomplishment.