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
>Now think about a list.  You can:
>Add shit to the front or back
>Concatenate two lists
You can sort list, then use binary search to
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Add shit
Union sets
Intersect sets
Remove SOME element
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in O(log2(N)) time