I'm not sure a $10 smartphone is going to be bought for a elementary school child to learn to program on. Nontechnical parents are not going to buy something l

I'm not sure a $10 smartphone is going to be bought for a elementary school child to learn to program on. Nontechnical parents are not going to buy something like that, root it, and teach their child to program. The glory of the 8-bit era was the ready to go nature of the programming environment and the cheap price.