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I imagine this would create a lot of excitement to "use the real thing", and inspire people to go further with this.

Whereas if you are used to ipads since 2 years old, MS Word probably doesn't seem so exciting.




Probably! When I was a kid I learned elementary Basic from Russ Walter's Secret Guide to Computers about a year before I ever put my hands on an actual computer.

I think it was helpful to know computers were nothing mysterious, they just followed instructions. Although I remember being really confused about whether "print" statements printed to paper or just showed things on the screen (which I had never thought of as printing).




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