Yeah, I was thinking of the alarm clock app on your phone rather than a hardware clock by the bedside, so you're practically hitting "add rule, set trigger, def

Yeah, I was thinking of the alarm clock app on your phone rather than a hardware clock by the bedside, so you're practically hitting "add rule, set trigger, define action" much like IFTTT or email inbox rules. When I've taught (adults) some basic coding, it's typically been state that's the challenging concept. You have a bunch of logic, but what was the state of your program (or the world) when the logic executed? If it's not what you expected, how did it get into that state? These questions seems fundamentally different to me compared to working on an Excel spreadsheet (which of course can still be complicated and have bugs).