Well I understand the negative reaction. We have to accept that programming has become a profession. What this should mean is that there should be a career/education path commonly accepted to achieve this. Unfortunately this path now requires years to learn and practice.
The negative reaction is when people think they can just "pick it up" and probably in a few months start cashing some pay cheques.
Is like saying you helped to cure your grandson from a bruise and placed a bandaid and now you are thinking of becoming a doctor. Comments from doctors would be similar.
But even among seasoned programmers they find it hard to accept they are professionals and don't realize that the specialized knowledge they have came from years of practice and research. Many professional programmers get kicked around by their managers because of this perception of programming being just banging the keyboard until something comes out.
My response to the original poster is to do some research first and decide in what he/she wants to specialize. I don't think anything today can compare to QBasic and MS Dos batch files, code complexity is the norm and data privacy responsibilities have legal consequences. So either he is trolling or was lazy and just figured the easiest thing was to fire a question to trusty old Slashdot.