I find that programming courses tend to force deliberate practice. Think about first year CS course: you're taught about loops and if statements, then you're as

I find that programming courses tend to force deliberate practice. Think about first year CS course: you're taught about loops and if statements, then you're asked to write a program. There's no direct connection between the material and the assignments: you have to think and practice and fail. This is one of the reasons perhaps for why so many people quit computer science after the first year. So many people in my family expressed their frustration at programming assignments (none of them took more than one or two courses).