Having lived through the Beeb micro era, I'm not sure that it can claim entire responsibility for teaching programming despite there being a beeb in many/most schools.
A single BBC machine was usually in the maths department displaying the odd graph - not exactly one per child!
Yes it was a good machine, but it was way too expensive (something like £400 when spectrums were £129)
the masses had Spectrums etc at home and learned to program on those.
In one way they were better than modern computers:
Boot time was instant, as the OS was on ROM chips (also meant it never corrupted!)
Last edited by mikerr; 01-03-2012 at 11:56 AM.
I think you have something there.
The unifying theme of the old 8 bit machines was that the command line was a bundled programming environment.
I had a TRS-80 clone followed by a Dragon 32. Beeb was too expensive, so taught me nothing
As a student my Atari ST came with Basic still (though by then I was compiling in C so ignored it).
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