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?

Let do some hardcore math!

1. All computers, I've seen, had a finite amount of memory.
2. If we take computer with a finite amount of memory and add one bit of memory to it, we will still get a computer with finite amount of memory
3. Now, by induction, all computers have finite amount of memory.
4. Universe, as a computer, has a finite amount of memory, so Universe is finite.
5. If Universe is finite, then God is also finite.
6. But God is Infinity, so Infinity is finite.