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
>Math is just a tool here.
Religion is also a tool. And has pretty much the same intentions - that is to scam people into submission to a state power. And mathemtical Infinity is pretty much like God, withs formulas being being rituals and prayers.

>And by thinking about weird stuff like the power set of the naturals we can then add specific details to model useful stuff.
What use has infinity? Or unordered set? Or the set of all "naturals"? IRL one always have finite number of naturals.