> Just wayyy to much stuff for a young mind to try to focus on. Keep in mind that most young kids can use modern technology very easily. My son was easily nav

> Just wayyy to much stuff for a young mind to try to focus on. Keep in mind that most young kids can use modern technology very easily. My son was easily navigating around computers with a mouse at 3. I had him playing old ScummVM games at 4. > BASIC, on the other hand, was created _for beginners_. Yes, but C64 basic was also created when hundred dollar machines had 64k of RAM. And it's pretty painful to use. Not everything about it is just for beginners, it works a certain way because of hardware limitations. You might have forgotten that variables can be 80 characters in length in C64 basic but only the first 2 letters matter (Index$ and Input$ are the same variable). I've got a Raspberry Pi and if I wanted to go the small locked down computer for programming route I'd probably use that. Get a nice display and keyboard and not mess with technology so obsolete that there is no upgrade path. And then there's this: http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php