rogramming courses?

Dear /puddi/,

Why or why do so many people fail to learn programming?
Is it because they fail to see programming as calculation of data and instead see a black box that magically does things?

Or is it because they can't grasp the "strict" typing of a programming language?

What is it, /prog/, that makes programming so hard, even the introductory course seems so hard for people, even with languages like LISP or Python, and books like SICP?

>>6
>Set elements are unordered because it let's us talk about more things with the same concept.
But all thing in real life have some relative order. Everything on my desktop ether on front of me, on the left or on the right. Everything in computer memory also has order. Not so in math.