There's no real barrier to entry in programming right now.
Yeah. If you're highly intelligent, highly motivated and have loads of time to learn. And it might be that intelligence isn't enough, if you can't abstractly enough. So something like 90% is right out. And of the remaining 10% - most who aren't passionate about computers can figure out to invest time and effort into something that can't be outsourced as easily.
Civil engineering, medicine, law, etc.
Bullshit.
It's not true. If you can program and can back that up with actual code that works and references to past work, you can.
Yeah. If you're highly intelligent, highly motivated and have loads of time to learn. And it might be that intelligence isn't enough, if you can't abstractly enough. So something like 90% is right out. And of the remaining 10% - most who aren't passionate about computers can figure out to invest time and effort into something that can't be outsourced as easily.
Civil engineering, medicine, law, etc.