> These programs will be a great way to introduce both kids and adults to programming This would be a tremendous way to do that. Programming on normal compute

> These programs will be a great way to introduce both kids and adults to programming This would be a tremendous way to do that. Programming on normal computers is always kind of disconnected from the real world. So, your program can add two and two. Great. Now what? Microcontrollers alleviate that issue to some extent. Now your program can walk and talk, and push real-world objects. But you kind of need to learn a bit of electronics too. Notch's Universe solves this issue neatly. It's a mock real world, with programmable computers. Now your software can do some interesting mock-real-world stuff, like fly spaceships. That's pretty neat.