Very true. As a teen, before I could program, I would dream up applications that I thought were cool (like an alarm clock application that plays a .wav or .mp3

Very true. As a teen, before I could program, I would dream up applications that I thought were cool (like an alarm clock application that plays a .wav or .mp3 for the sound!!1) and yep, it involved a gui. My first programming books were for qbasic and basic and I was like, huh, where does the clicking stuff come in? Then on irc or a forum, someone pointed me to visual basic and I never looked back. Plus, all the hard stuff like media playing and file picking was a built in control that I could use. Later, in AP comp sci in high school, they were teaching us the swing ui stuff for java, and that was ... painful by comparison. Kids in class has no idea how easy it could be.