I agree. The fact the 80s micros booted to BASIC put programming in front of you from the get go and subsequent machines hid programming away. The fact the mach

I agree. The fact the 80s micros booted to BASIC put programming in front of you from the get go and subsequent machines hid programming away. The fact the machine came with a manual that was mostly about programming, they expected you to do that. If you wanted to play a game you often typed it in from a book (like the Usborne series). You tried to see if you could cheat or change the game by messing with the numbers which exposed you to tinkering with programming.