Programming is actually very mathematical, in the sense that algorithms and other aspects of math are intrinsic to it. Coding is just the final step when you string syntax together, which these days the IDE can substantially do without your help! At least that is how I see it.
So the idea that you are going to take people who couldn't get a good grade in Trigonometry -- who probably never took trigonometry -- and turn them into productive “programmers” is pretty ignorant. And then there is the fact that 90% of code cost is in code maintenance. Further to the above.
Maybe they mean everyone can be a "cookie cutter" website designer? Yeah, that will be the key to full employment.
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