I like physical books as well. I would concede however that although generations of people learned to program using books, they were small generations. The in

I like physical books as well. I would concede however that although generations of people learned to program using books, they were small generations. The increased accessibility that came with the internet has drastically increased the number of people able to acquire those skills. Accessibility is probably the priority in a K-12 setting where you're accommodating kids with a wide range of skills and interests in a single class, not just the kids intrinsically interested enough to actually read the book after school.