> School courses will do nothing if people don't have > access to programmable computers I was taught to program exactly in this way: in the classroom, witho

> School courses will do nothing if people don't have > access to programmable computers I was taught to program exactly in this way: in the classroom, without access to computers—our school did not have any. When I finally had access to a computer and a real programming language (not some pseudo code) I just needed the syntax to write my programs in. The tricky part is not to teach kids the syntax of language X, it's to teach them to operate abstract structures, and that is much much harder.