non-coders

GA tries to appeal to non-coders, so they don't widely publicize their ability to track custom events.

Hoodie aims for more frobtendy/designery types, in the future Hoodie definitely wants to reach non-coders as well.

Case in point: the mental model of Git has worked well for developers, but does not translate well to non-coders.

It is very difficult for non-coders to know what is a very difficult task (e.g.

And that's an incredibly powerful feature of programming...and not very well-emphasized to most non-coders.

Anything known broadly-enough known that it's reasonable to assume all coders would know it is broadly-enough known that non-coders could learn it, too.

The reason Excel is so popular is not because non-coders are dumb.

It doesn't seem to be non-coders as far as I can tell.

So the original community, which is composed of sharp clever entrepreneurs, is slowly growing outnumbered on two fronts, both the non-coders and the people who want HN worsened for selfish reasons.

I'm interested in what non-coders learned from it.

I'm surprised they didn't get stronger results from fizz buzz, but I noticed among the candidates I saw that the percentage of 'non-coders' is substantial but not a majority.

I do like to see code, but I can usually tell the socially adept non-coders and charlatans from people who can actually program, even without looking at a line of code.

I don't mean to humblebrag here, but rather to refute the only-somewhat-popular sentiment I've seen on HN that non-coders "can't get shit done." No.

Excel is a much more general purpose language used by tons of "non-coders" (and arguably the most popular programming language on earth).

Engineers live in the world and thus develop some understanding of "human dynamics" whereas non-coders do not get exposure to coding just by living their lives.

I agree that that is the real problem--that said, the article took the stance of "Why is Twitter being so much nicer to developers than non-coders?"

Non-coders can build complex content sorting and display pages with Views, etc.

(Non-coders who want to write text use Word.) And coders want features like syntax coloring, autocompletion, split views, multi-file management, etc.