>"For example, if I tried to teach a bunch of inner city kids about Python sounding like the average HackerNews user, they would never learn anything! " I woul

>"For example, if I tried to teach a bunch of inner city kids about Python sounding like the average HackerNews user, they would never learn anything! " I wouldn't try to do that myself, precisely because they're illiterate. They have much bigger problems than the accessibility of learning a programming language. They need to be functional members of society, and one important part of that is communication.