Programming is harder to break into a set of rules and formulas that you can just apply to an artificially constructed problem. You just can't "fake" it. You e

Programming is harder to break into a set of rules and formulas that you can just apply to an artificially constructed problem. You just can't "fake" it. You either get it, or you don't. Most high school teachers won't "get" it. > Ditto mathematician. Most high school teachers I know of who are teaching math have no idea what math is really a I know, but they can fake it, because the curriculum is designed as a set of rules that must be learned. > So, no different from math, then. The difference is that programming cannot be taught as a set of rules that must be learned and then applied without much understanding.