One more question - an untapped audience.

[Steve Teale]

On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 11:00:18 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 05:03:29 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>
>
> The most important thing for newbies, either new to the 
> language or new to programming, is "instant gratification". If 
> it compiles and works, people are more likely to be 
> enthusiastic about it. Give them useful examples and use cases 
> and they will begin to see how useful programming is and start 
> thinking about applications, however trivial they may be, they 
> can write themselves for their own personal use (a little 
> clock, a calculator for VAT ...) In this way they will start to 
> think as both developer and user, add features, go ever deeper 
> into programming. Creating useful things, that's what it's all 
> about, isn't it?

Thanks for your last paragraph. That's what I was talking about.