I do get what you mean; my 48k Spectrum was certainly a simpler machine than my current laptop! But I still think there are simple things that beginners can do

I do get what you mean; my 48k Spectrum was certainly a simpler machine than my current laptop! But I still think there are simple things that beginners can do. The whole SAVE, LOAD, RUN concepts also had to be learned. And you only need to know some text editor to be able to save a file. It can then be run with `bash myprogram`. And then later you can add the concepts of adding a shebang and making the file executable. Also, the huge advantage of teaching shell commands is that it is actually, currently useful. I use those commands every day at work, despite having learnt them initially on an old Sun server many moons ago. I can't say the same for Spectrum Basic! :)