Thtat reminds me that when I was a kid and I knew literally nothing about computers, I hated Logo because of a totally non-intuitive syntax, but I solved a math puzzle (something like the mpuz form Emacs, but for DOS PC's) at great speeds. With Windows 96/98 and C++ it was even worse, as the programming barrier was uber-high with the Win32 API, and most of sysadmin the stuff under Windows was MS's technobabbled nonsense.
Thus, I tought computers where a crappy blackbox for College engineers and with no open knowledge. Until early 00's.
Then GNU/Linux came, with full manuals included for everything with Debian Woody and then Sarge. I tried to do the same with PostScript, it's kinda the literal same thing as Logo, but now the environment was much saner and understandable, with Emacs calling GV on demand, and the most importang thing: documentation. As simple was that. Bundled help files.
You didn't require books not found anywhere else, nor an internet connection, nor people really far from your blue collar relatives who had no connection to computers. The gap between the nerdy kid with young parents around computers and me became much smaller, and the GNU/BSD guys did an oustanding work spreading IT to anyone.
Thus, I tought computers where a crappy blackbox for College engineers and with no open knowledge. Until early 00's.
Then GNU/Linux came, with full manuals included for everything with Debian Woody and then Sarge. I tried to do the same with PostScript, it's kinda the literal same thing as Logo, but now the environment was much saner and understandable, with Emacs calling GV on demand, and the most importang thing: documentation. As simple was that. Bundled help files.
You didn't require books not found anywhere else, nor an internet connection, nor people really far from your blue collar relatives who had no connection to computers. The gap between the nerdy kid with young parents around computers and me became much smaller, and the GNU/BSD guys did an oustanding work spreading IT to anyone.