We had a neuropsych eval with DD and he said it's an executive functioning issue. She doesn't have the planning/organizational ability to figure out how to get started or how to organize her thoughts. He suggested breaking everything down into tiny parts and having her use graphic organizers. DD says she doesn't like the graphic organizers, so even that may be too difficult for her. At this point she basically requires someone to sit with her to do projects like this.
I don't think that this is directly related to "coding" but slow processing speed is another manifestation of impaired executive functioning.
This is an interesting article, scroll down to the boxes and look at #1 activation, and #3 effort.
http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10782.aspx
