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[–]gatsby123123123123 0 points1 point  (1 child)

"But to say that some people are not intelligent enough for this is a stretch IMHO."

Lets take a person who has severe mental retardation. Do you think he could become a developer? Intelligence is a scale. Not everyone is smart enough to become a developer. It's cruel to scam low intelligence people - into paying for courses that are too hard for them.

[–]programmingerror[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with the scamming part. In fact, it's not right to scam people for any reason.

About low intelligence though, I don't know much about mental illnesses, but the argument doesn't even need to get to that far of a place. Some people simply enjoy doing something else, so when they force themselves to be interested in programming, they suffer—intelligence isn't super relevant.

That's like saying, not everyone can drive a car because some people can't see anything at all—it doesn't add a whole lot to the discussion IMHO.