How to interest a person (student) in IT?

Question

Programming

I have a friend who doesn't like his life very much. He studies at the university, but says - it's not his. Knows that I am, so to speak, "interested" in programming. He also said he wants to, but he has no idea what it is. He doesn’t have much time anyway, so it’s stupid to put him to learn languages, programs, technologies and the rest, even if just because he quits, he gets bored quickly. "He won't have time to understand what beauty is." He will not catch that same childish delight from what is happening.
Such a question. How can you show very clearly what programming, development is, so that if you don’t get interested, then at least understand what it is, what it’s capable of, can I pull it off, is it interesting enough for me?

Answer 1

If he doesn't want to, he won't start. Programming is hell for the average person.

Answer 2

We don't need extra people here.

Answer 3

the world is not made up of only programmers

Answer 4

IT is now fashionable and it seems that everyone should be interested in it. But ask the same question with a different topic, and you will understand the absurdity of this idea. For example, "how to interest a person in accounting?" or "how to get a person interested in milking cows?"

Answer 5

It is obvious that you just need to change faculty

Answer 6

The programmer spends the whole day raking logical puzzles in gibberish. You won't wish on your enemy to force you to do this all day long.

Answer 7

You don't start there. Being interested in IT and becoming a programmer are not the same thing.
Today, in order to be productively engaged in any work where the main tool is a computer, you need to be an advanced user. Including knowing the basics of programming.