[bobbin]

> Hacking a computer could be both fun and useful for a great variety of smart people.

I don't understand. Could you give concrete examples of "hacking a computer" that could be fun and useful for a great variety of smart people?

[kiba]

Writing up a bot program to gather tons of statistical data so you can do your job as a marketeer thousand of times faster than your peers.

Crisscrossing traffic patterns with a database of customers so you can efficiently landscape all your clients and make more money instead of waiting around being stuck in traffic.

Build and program swarm bots that clean the floors of your client faster so you can jump to the next client.

Write A/B testing programs for your restaurant chains so you can increase earning from your customers by incrementally trying out ways to get more customers, sell more foods, etc.

Programming, however, only tended to be used by programmers.

[arethuza]

There is already a "programming" environment used by lots of non-developers: it's called Excel.