What prior knowledge would you need to do computing?
Cooking a simple meal anybody can learn, just as typing a Word document and printing it. More complicated cooking tends to stress people out immensely. Kind of the same as more complicated computer stuff does.
> What prior knowledge would you need to do computing?
Wikipedia to the rescue, as usual
Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and development of both hardware and software.
now go to the average person, ask them what an algorithm is and be prepared to be disappointed.
Ask them what a pressure cooker or filleting is and you won't be.
> just as typing a Word document and printing it
that's not computing, that's typewriting.
typewriting is easy, as the adage says: monkeys can do it and eventually write Shakespeare.
> More complicated cooking tends to stress people out immensely. Kind of the same as more complicated computer stuff does.
Not really.
More complicated cooking mostly takes more time, but it's not really more difficult. I would argue that many people can make cakes which is some of the more complicated food one can cook, but they amusingly say they can't cook.
Making sushi it's easy, but it needs a very long preparation.
More complicated computer stuff requires a lot of studying and you have to learn a lot of concepts that have no other use outside of computing world.
Correct.
The difference is that computing needs a lot of prior knowledge, including what computing means and which branch of computing you want to learn.
But writing a Word document and printing it it's absolutely attainable in 1 day.
Cooking, as in cooking your meals at home, for yourself or your family, is only a bit more complicated than preparing the breakfast.
Which is something that anybody (IMHO) can do.