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I taught a Python course to people with humanities and non-technical backgrounds. The thing that helped me was to understand what was going on in their heads when I said things like 'array' or 'datastructure'.

Those of us that have written a lot of code take these mental structures for granted; we easily manipulate them in our minds to discuss things. People that are new at this will literally have no mental model for concepts embedded in datastructures and algorithms.

Every subject has to get around this; I struggled with this when trying to move from single variable functions to vector valued functions. The most annoying thing as a student is having an instructor talk at you and not to you.