As someone who writes for a company, I understand the goal is to get a person to read your article, but I feel uncomfortable by the disingenuity of the title. It tells me one thing, then the article ends with the opposite conclusion.

Sure, you got me to read it, but it felt too forced/contrived and salesman-like.

Anyway, I'm a beginner in programming/coding/scripting. I take courses online. After work. On the weekends.

I'm sure there is certainly a group of people for which what Vinicius says is true, so in terms of that, it's good to have someone write this out. However, it is more important to see/analyse if what he says applies to you.

What he says does not apply to me. I am 30 years old, have just started learning to program, and my birthday is a week away.

I am genuinely interested in it. My mind always worked in ways which help when programming. While I spent most of my life in the (liberal) arts, I think there is a strong correlation between my excelling in my previous endeavours with my capability to grasp programming concepts. I can't say my approach is the only way to do extremely well in it, because, as they say, there is more than one way to skin a cat. But I guess this middle-ground type of writing is not very good copy.

All that aside, congratulations to Vinicius for learning to code.