BASIC Training Defined Child Computers

From the 1980s through the mid-1990s, many educational computers for children included built-in training in the BASIC programming language. Educators, politicians, and technology experts feared that anyone who could not program would be excluded from the coming computer revolution. That belief gradually faded after user-friendly systems such as the Apple Macintosh appeared, shifting computer literacy from writing programs to using existing software.

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