Programmers are born not made

One nice way of describing a good programmer is this: You give a guy just a few tools, and he already starts thinking on how those tools work and what he can do with them.

The guy I was teaching just learned about printing chars, loops and arrays in java, and in the next few days he wrote a simple console four in a row game with pretty good AI and everything. - he makes me proud

The funny thing is that he can't understand how other people don't understand what they're learnign.