[lbearl]

I know exactly what you are talking about. I'm just really afraid of what the knock-on effects are going to be of starting kids out in walled gardens. I wouldn't be an engineer today if it wasn't for the fact that it was possible for me to play with various languages, or start distro hopping in high school with a 433Mhz PC. These walled gardens make it easy to keep everything working, but come at a high cost of actually learning what the device does.