I sort of agree with you. I also started on BASIC on an Atari 800XL. What really got me hooked was the immediately result of it. It booted up into an environment where I can enter code directly, run it directly, debugging was a little painful and had to use prints. But the path to seeing something happen was pretty straight forward with very few obstacles.
In today's computer, I can't see any environment that would do that.
If my kids are presented with Visual Studio, I think they would spend the majority of their time clicking on the thousands of buttons on the ribbon, perhaps.
In today's computer, I can't see any environment that would do that.
If my kids are presented with Visual Studio, I think they would spend the majority of their time clicking on the thousands of buttons on the ribbon, perhaps.