"These days, programming perhaps also has a lower barrier of entry than mathematics with respect to the amount of specialist vocabulary required for comprehensi

"These days, programming perhaps also has a lower barrier of entry than mathematics with respect to the amount of specialist vocabulary required for comprehension." Would it be reasonable to state that another major factor that programming has a lower entry barrier because it receives a lot of good publicity. I see many ads and PSA's online, and in my local community which encourage people to program. Going even further programming has modern young people serving as figureheads and mentors. Most people have been learning math since grade school, but no one ever mentioned Leonhard Euler, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, John von Neumann, or Georg Cantor during class/lecture. I want to do anything I can to encourage people to learn and explore mathematics, especially young people. Going back to school, and pursuing computer-science, and mathematics has made me think more clearly, and rationally about my whole life. I wish someone would of encouraged that when I was younger.