[chrislgrigg]

When I was around 7 or 8, I borrowed every book on BASIC from my local library that they had, since that was all they had that dealt with programming. My parents encouraged me but didn't have anything close to a technical background, so they couldn't do much, and I didn't have the ability to stay focused and start slowly, from the beginning of those books to get much out of them. It was years before we had internet access so there weren't better resources available. I sometimes wonder how different my life would have been if something like this had been there to help focus my learning, provide guidelines, and encourage the structure I was lacking. This could give kids options they might never have otherwise.