> People who have already graduated with non-programming backgrounds are feeling (either outwardly or subconsciously) inferior, handicapped or vulnerable in some way relative to their code-trained peers.

I wish this was true.

Most non-coders (mostly "business men") think they are superior and "just" need some code monkey, who can transform their "brilliant" ideas into a product. Like coding was some kind of stuff they could do, but they don't want to waste their precious time with...