There is a very easy way to explain programming (in assembler, no less) by analogy to how children do basic mathematics -- addition and subtraction. That's bec

There is a very easy way to explain programming (in assembler, no less) by analogy to how children do basic mathematics -- addition and subtraction. That's because mathematicians do use algorithms, and concepts like "position" (indexing to us programmers), though they don't have names for them. If you explain programming using the concrete things every educated person knows, it is much easier to teach.