I am constantly told by people that I am lucky I know how to code etc, as if it was an innate ability I was born with. The next question is almost always, so how do I learn to code? My response is always the same. Get an IDE, get an SDK, get and idea - read a tonne of examples and go to it. Most people however don't REALLY want to code. REALLY wanting to code means hours and hours of frustration debugging code (I always say - writing code is easy, debugging code is hard). I liken debugging to writing the same word over and over and over, until you finally get it right - then get to write two words over and over. Then when you get a full page of words you discover you missed a comma at the start and have to write it again

The lack of willingness to do this I can only imagine stems from the same "I want everything on a silver platter handed to me" syndrome that the new generation seems to have. if it isnt instantaneous, its not worth doing, and that just doesn't lend itself to coding

Oh and Text - speaking as someone who made mud bricks for one summer, Even I wouldnt have the temperament for that kind of coding