An 8 year old, using the ring bound manual that came with their computer, can figure out the basics - enough to write a program like this, and examine it. I’m

An 8 year old, using the ring bound manual that came with their computer, can figure out the basics - enough to write a program like this, and examine it. I’m not being dismissive here, but speaking literally from experience. Personally, it’s my opinion that computers were a lot simpler back then. Nowadays we’re very, very far from the hardware - hardware that has grown very complicated in comparison.