@AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @vnikolov@ieji.de @rk@mastodon.well.com @ed1conf@bsd.network @mike805@noc.social @thalia@discuss.systems Exactly! The Apple II was simple enough that even as a kid, I could understand a great deal of it. It didn’t feel overwhelming. Even extending it at the OS level wasn’t that hard. Now my 15-year-old kid is going to start learning Python at school, and OK, in many ways Python is much better than Basic, but even Python isn’t simple any more. I feel like there ought to be a way for kids to still have that experience of understanding a computer at different levels, without the overwhelming feeling that there are lots of huge areas of total mystery.