I think the best thing anyone can do to encourage people to learn programming (with what we currently have) would be for Google to include a RAD IDE with a simp

I think the best thing anyone can do to encourage people to learn programming (with what we currently have) would be for Google to include a RAD IDE with a simple interpreted programming language like Python with the OS itself. Something standard, across one of the currently most popular platforms. When first launched it should give you a programming manual. But I can imagine them ruining it. It would be tied to their cloud service (oh my tablet's offline? Half of the features won't work, the manual is gone and I can't share my code). It would be updated all the time so wouldn't be stable. The runtime and IDE would be so fragmented (one of the benefits of ROM was that it was expensive to burn so tended to be quite stable over a long period). And of course there would be the AOSP version and the Google version furthering fragmentation. Modern computing has turned me into a cynic. I'm slowly starting to hate what our industry has become. By the time I was old enough to start my professional career, the world I had fallen in love with was gone.