I'd say it's like writing down very specific instructions to do something, that afterwards can be translated to manipulation of numbers. The results get to be

I'd say it's like writing down very specific instructions to do something, that afterwards can be translated to manipulation of numbers. The results get to be stored, retrieved and displayed. Since it's a manipulation of numbers, the set of rules you get to use are all based on logic (if this, then that, etc) Then you can add an extra step of number manipulation can be boiled down to manipulating binary numbers consisting of 0s and 1s, so the logic used is boolean logic etc. So I'd say programming is more like learning logic constructs (math) - it's a universal language with rules that are interested in manipulating values in very complex ways.