[notduncansmith]

It could be taught to most people, but aptitude correlates with enjoyment - if they don’t get joy from creating things, or they don’t enjoy spending time in a world they have to use their imagination to fully see, then they will probably never learn to code. I don’t know if you can get people to enjoy these things if they don’t already by the time they’re 25 or so. Everyone is naturally either more cerebral or more somatic, and environment can affect this balance, but once the brain is done developing there’s not much that can be done to change it. In my experience, somatic folks take a lot less readily to software and try to figure out a way to avoid figuring out the actual problems.