> Nowadays, it is easier than ever to learn programming. In some ways, I disagree. In the early-mid 80s, you didn't have a chorus of people on social media abu

> Nowadays, it is easier than ever to learn programming. In some ways, I disagree. In the early-mid 80s, you didn't have a chorus of people on social media abusing you for your choice of programming language, as is the norm now for anyone who dares to pick up PHP (for example). You didn't have to battle with absurdly over-complex development environments, deployment options, and every man and his dog shouting at you on social media about why you're wrong from chosing framework x instead of framework y, or telling you that you're a sub-moron for thinking that it would be nice to have a running program rather than spend time battling emacs to be a "real programmer". The world was much more insular and there were fewer choices and it was actually a lot better for it. On top of that, the distance from what I could put together with the built-in BASIC on a Spectrum or BBC and a lot of the programs that you could buy wasn't that vast. You didn't need a studio of artists and designers and musicians to come up with a game that approximates what you'd get on a cassette. You could come up with something interesting on your own.