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?

Programming is easy. It can be understood by just thinking. You wont get any crazy paradoxes, like this incompletness paradox.

Mathematics, on the other hand, can't be understood at all. Try understand infinite or at least finite sets. How come, set's elements are "unordered"? Does such condition possible in real life? How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?