I couldn't agree more with this.
As I have noted before, I started programming on an Amstrad in the 80's when I was a kid.
Programming in those days meant making a crude game. The article above makes a good point, "But, sadly, current versions of Windows have no immediately accessible programming languages. And what’s a kid going to do with Visual Basic? Build a modal dialog?".
I have never really thought about this before. What do youngsters do today to get started? I know they *could* download C# or VBExpress for free and download DirectX SDK for free, but its not by any means easy - even for a professional developer. I can't imagine a young programmer being that interested in learning programming by making a Windows App.
I guess they could get into making Web Apps in ASP.NET or php etc and I would think that would be something I would do if I were 15 years younger and starting out.
Even then things ain't as easy as they were 15-20 years ago. In that respect it seems things have taken a backward step?
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I don't think it's the lack of a builtin language that's holding kids back from coding. After all, every machine has HTML & Javascript.
I think the reason much more kids back then got in to coding vs kids now, is kids now have much better games.
i'm thirteen, and i started with html, js etc, and have graduated to vcexpress. but i agree, only about 2 of my friends understands a word i say.
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