It's a shame it disappeared before educators became serious about teaching kids to code as well. All my math text books from the late 80's and 90's came with co

It's a shame it disappeared before educators became serious about teaching kids to code as well. All my math text books from the late 80's and 90's came with code samples written in basic that teachers ignored and now kids have dedicated coding classes where the snap together if statements in a useless visual programming thing on their iPads. We missed the opportunity to teach programming in a way that was both immediately useful (took away the repetitive work) and integrated way with other classes. I wish I could go back in time and show my younger self what to do with those basic code samples while I was wasting time plotting some function on a piece of graph paper.