I think you should give a more precise definition of the aptitude needed to be labelled has-a-gear.
And the next step for a reductionist is to split this “gear” to smaller (and smaller and smaller… if necessary) parts, and design a course to teach each one of them separately. And only then teach programming.
People have some innate differences, but I feel that speaking about innate talent is often just worshiping our ignorance as teachers.
Of course, it may turn out that the innate differences in this specific topic are too big to overcome, or that overcoming them is possible but not cost-effective… but I think we haven’t tried hard enough yet.
And the next step for a reductionist is to split this “gear” to smaller (and smaller and smaller… if necessary) parts, and design a course to teach each one of them separately. And only then teach programming.
People have some innate differences, but I feel that speaking about innate talent is often just worshiping our ignorance as teachers.
Of course, it may turn out that the innate differences in this specific topic are too big to overcome, or that overcoming them is possible but not cost-effective… but I think we haven’t tried hard enough yet.