As a person teaching information technology to students for more than 20 years now, I can assure you that only fraction of students are that interested. Perhaps

As a person teaching information technology to students for more than 20 years now, I can assure you that only fraction of students are that interested. Perhaps many seem interested due to peer or economical pressure. Meanwhile economy needs proper new recruits which is impossible statistically at this point. We also, back in the day, did not immediately grasp the beauty, and also the need, for programming logic (prolog) or certain discrete structures - things people learn in the universities. Yet we learned ourselves to debug and code - by trial and error, by working in friends groups, and loved it. Loved to write code and see things move on the screen. We were just kids in high schools, right, makes us what - 14 at the time? Nobody has ever pushed me or chased me do that. Since I started teaching Perl in 2003 (and did so for 10 years on university grounds) I got absolutely convinced that people learn better when they can see the result, when they entertain and generally when something gets to convince them the matter is not so hard at all. So, kudos for the book.