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?

>>22
Why should one define anything at all? Nobody is forcing you to "believe" into anything, you just take a system of your own definition, and if it's consistent, you'll arrive at a lot of properties of that system. The system doesn't have to be computable or of this world. While our world can only describe computable things, this doesn't mean that uncomputable systems don't let you reach some very interesting conclusions. You intentionally limit your worldview and thus will miss some pretty useful truths.
>>28 That's a lot of fallacies and ambiguous definitions right there.