FOREWORD
THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, books were limited to a select few: members of the clergy and the upper class. Then, as access to education increased dramatically and the printing industry took off, the world struggled to change the educational system to teach students the fundamentals of reading. Today, we take for granted that every student will learn how to read—it’s a necessary skill to operate in the modern world. But it’s interesting to note that we have the same anxieties now about how to teach every student the fundamentals of programming as people had about reading so long ago. We all know it needs to happen; the devil is in the details.
I learned to program by getting a bootlegged copy of Visual Basic from one of my parent’s friends ...
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