Only 5% of the US population is capable enough to "schedule a meeting room in a scheduling application, using information contained in several email messages."
Remember in the 90s, when teens were more tech savvy than adults, and everyone assumed that the savviest would just keep getting younger? Now it's 2017, and the people who were teens in the 90s are the most tech savvy generation and probably will be until they die.
Kids don't grow up with computers any more, they grow up with iPhones. If it's possible to learn to code on an iPhone, it's despite Apple's best efforts.
@mogwai_poet My father, who was carpenter/woodcraftsman, got us a micro computer back in the 80s. Instead of getting the usual C-64 with tons of games, he got SVI-728 and one game. That pretty much forced me to learn programming if I wanted to do anything else but play that game over and over again (I did that too though).
Later on he told me that it was his plan all along, to teach me to create something, instead of just consuming what others create. He's wise like that.
@tuturto @mogwai_poet I discovered that GORRILAS.BAS did collision detection with colors the hard way.
@mogwai_poet @tuturto I wanted to make the game prettier, so I changed the code so that the Windows and buildings had random colors. However, sometimes a gorilla would spontaneously combust whenever the banana hit the building. It took a long time to figure out that it only happens when the building is gorilla-colored.
@duck57 @tuturto What *is* the hard way for that?