I think this is exactly the idea behind projects like BYOB/Scratch (http://byob.berkeley.edu/ http://byob.berkeley.edu/). I think it's pretty successful at intr

I think this is exactly the idea behind projects like BYOB/Scratch (http://byob.berkeley.edu/ http://byob.berkeley.edu/). I think it's pretty successful at introducing people with no previous experience at all to programming at Berkeley, at the very least. Coincidentally, making a Scratch app for tablets (I suspect Apple may not cooperate, but it could be for Android) would be really neat.