Most math books are written in a way where 1 is the first element. So if you take math examples and translate to code, it works more naturally. Also this is ho

Most math books are written in a way where 1 is the first element. So if you take math examples and translate to code, it works more naturally. Also this is how you talk normally. You don't talk about the zeroth-column or zeroth-row in daily speech. You talk about first column and first row. Only reason 0 based indexing make sense to me is because I began programming as a teenagers and was forced to get accustomed to it. But I remember struggling with it. Yes when working with memory, pointers etc it is more elegant. But if you are not, then I think 1-based indexing looks better.