[gaius]

I am pretty sure when I was 10, it was normal for a kid to know what a sprite was (indeed the finer points of what and how your computer did sprites was playground argument stuff). Most people had at least had an attempt at creating their own game or demo. Kids these days only want to use computers.

[rytis]

yes, precisely. they want to use it to create other things. drawing, writing, presentations - they find it interesting. programming? not so. why? i don't know. i tend to think it's the tools, or the complexity of it all. on the second though, i think they all got too used to the instant gratification, in other words, the more time it takes to get the result, the less interesting/inspiring it becomes. and it kind of brings us back to the first point - tools are too complicated... :)