That's true, but these days most people have always-on broadband internet connections, so prebundling with windows is not as important as it once was. I don't

That's true, but these days most people have always-on broadband internet connections, so prebundling with windows is not as important as it once was. I don't think something like Processing is any harder to get into than basic was. I started programming with GW-BASIC, LOGO and QBasic myself - the first thing that I thought when I started playing around with Processing is that it is remarkably similar to a modern QBasic.