> It is all a matter of teaching I think there is more to it than that. I started in the early 1980s when every computer booted straight into a programming en

> It is all a matter of teaching I think there is more to it than that. I started in the early 1980s when every computer booted straight into a programming environment. The manuals which came with them described their languages with examples and there was a large publishing industry supporting these books. The computers were relatively simple, within a couple of hours of typing something in you'd be seeing results. Current computers and consoles are immensely more complicated and do not lend themselves to exploring. They also have a much wider audience who just want to turn it on and play rather than tinker. There are still people with an open and exploration mind, they are playing with Raspberry's etc. I expect. We used to be the majority of computer owners, the numbers may have dwindles a little but we're now swamped by regular users.