Do your friends want to learn to code?

I have a friend that's more of an industrial engineer. He has seen the stuff I do for work, has been curious about the things that can be done with coding, and how startups are more tech-oriented lately.
Still, he doesn't think coding is for him and he prefers to be in the more managerial, talking to people, running operations and such.

Time constraints, other hobbies getting in the way. A good friend is exactly the kind of person who I think would be awesome at the abstract logical thinking and problem solving needed to be good at programming, and he's expressed interest, but he never ends up prioritizing it above all of his other favorite things. And fair enough, no reason he has to code

My fiancé has been wanting to get into coding for quite some time now. Time is a big factor, as you might expect, but simply not knowing where to start is probably the biggest reason. Which, for the most part, I can understand as I was facing the exact same issue when I first started out. You'd think I have some sort of a guideline to help her out and point her in the right direction but even I struggle to point to something that's small enough to get started with but also challenging enough.

I wish I did have friends that wanted to learn to code! It gets lonely over here. :/

All my friends want to learn a little bit of code to help them with their jobs, not like "I want to code full time" more "I want to do a little python to make this spreadsheet quicker".